Tar command question
 

Hi folks,

With following simple tar command a tarball can be extracted to the "designated_directory"

$ tar zxvf /path/to/xxx.tar.gz -C /path/to/designated_directory/

What flag shall I use to do the job creating the "designated_directory" simultaneously if the latter has not been created.

TIA

B.R.
satimis

I use this to create the tar
tar -cvzf backup.tar.gz ./images

and this to restore the tar to a directory which may not already exist.

mkdir -p /mnt/backup | tar -xvzf backup.tar.gz -C /mnt/backup

Hi homey,

Noted with thanks

B.R.
satimis