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

I did that in tree steps. Hopefully will help others in the future.

gzip -d file.tar.gz
tar -f file.tar --delete folder1/file1.txt --delete folder2/file2.txt
gzip -9 file.tar

If you have multiple files use this. But the archives them must have all the files you want to delete, or tar will give a error.

for f in *.tar.gz
do
        echo "Processing file $f"
        gzip -d "$f"
        tar -f "${f%.*}" --delete folder1/file1.txt --delete folder2/file2.txt
        gzip -9 "${f%.*}"
done