How to delete one file from tar.gz archive

Question

I have a huge tarbell archive with an excessively large or damaged error_log that causes the archive to freeze when trying to extract it. Is there a way to remove this from the archive before unpacking or extracting the archive without extracting that specific file on a Mac OS X terminal?

I found this post about how efficiently-remove-files-from-large-tgz , however I tried the -delete flag but got this error:

tar: Option --delete is not supported 

Is there any way:

• delete a file from the archive without unzipping it?
• extract archive but exclude file?

Answer 1

As mentioned in the comments, it is not possible to delete the file using tar, but you can exclude the file when you extract:

 tar -zxvf file.tar.gz --exclude "file_to_exclude" 

Answer 2

You can pack it like this:

 tar -czvf ./new.tar.gz --exclude='._*' @old.tar.gz 

I used ._* to delete all ._files , but you can use any template you like, including the full path, directory, file name, or whatever.

Answer 3

Dear, you can delete the archive file in the same format in which we delete the directory from below using the command through

command: - rm -rf archive file name r: - recursively