How do I delete a single file from a tar.gz archive

Question

I have a huge tarbell archive with an excessively large or corrupt error_log that causes the archive to hang when attempting to extract it. Is there a way to remove this from th

Answer 1

You can repackage it like this:

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

I used ._* to remove all ._files, but you can use any pattern you like, including a full path, directory, filename, or whatever.