I'm not sure I understand quite. Is backup.zip a tar.* file ? "file backup.zip" will tell you what type of file it is, if it is a tar file, "tar xfv backup.zip -C /home/tom home/tom/images". Here's what I do "tar jcBpfv /XXX/home.tar.bz2 /home", when I want to extract a directory, "tar jxBpfv /XXX/ home.tar.bz2 -C /home/tom home/tom/images". This says extract /XXX/home/tar.bz2, just the directory /home/tom/images and extract it to /home/tom, that restores /home/tom/images with original permissions and time stamps. Regards Sid. Tom Nielsen wrote:
I backed up my /home directory to backup.zip. Rather than pull everything out, right now I only want to pull out my /images folder. It's under /home/tom/images.
How, if I can, do this?
Thanks, Tom
-- Sid Boyce .... Linux Only Shop.