tar: Starting File
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1 Starting File
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1 '--starting-file=NAME'
1 '-K NAME'
1 Starts an operation in the middle of an archive. Use in
1 conjunction with '--extract' ('--get', '-x') or '--list' ('-t').
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1 If a previous attempt to extract files failed due to lack of disk
1 space, you can use '--starting-file=NAME' ('-K NAME') to start
1 extracting only after member NAME of the archive. This assumes, of
1 course, that there is now free space, or that you are now extracting
1 into a different file system. (You could also choose to suspend 'tar',
1 remove unnecessary files from the file system, and then resume the same
1 'tar' operation. In this case, '--starting-file' is not necessary.)
1 See also ⇒interactive, and ⇒exclude.
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