[SOLVED] tar -zxvpf echolot-2.1.9.tar.gz

battles · 02-12-2015, 01:09 PM

I can't seem to find an example of how to unzip/tar files into the same directory as the zipped file.

tar -zxvpf thefile.tar.gz

It places it into a directory names thefile.

Thanks.

veerain · 02-12-2015, 02:01 PM

Perhaps it's not possible.
Well you can use mv to move contents of base directory into current directory. And use rmdir base directory.

TB0ne · 02-12-2015, 02:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by battles

I can't seem to find an example of how to unzip/tar files into the same directory as the zipped file.

tar -zxvpf thefile.tar.gz

It places it into a directory names thefile.

It will only create a "thefile" directory if your files were in that directory when the archive was created. Read the man page on the tar command...there are several options to look at, but the most promising is:

Code:

--one-top-level[=DIR]
              Extract all files into DIR, or, if used without argument, into a subdirectory named by the base name of the archive (minus  standard  compres-
              sion suffixes recognizable by --auto-compress).

---------- Post added 02-12-15 at 02:16 PM ----------

Quote:

Originally Posted by veerain

Perhaps it's not possible. Well you can use mv to move contents of base directory into current directory. And use rmdir base directory.

Wrong..it IS possible to do, if you had read the man page. Please don't post misleading or incorrect information.

battles · 02-12-2015, 02:21 PM

Thanks. I have read some more on it and found some of that. I did just end up doing a move.

veerain · 02-12-2015, 10:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TB0ne

It will only create a "thefile" directory if your files were in that directory when the archive was created. Read the man page on the tar command...there are several options to look at, but the most promising is:

Code:

--one-top-level[=DIR]
              Extract all files into DIR, or, if used without argument, into a subdirectory named by the base name of the archive (minus  standard  compres-
              sion suffixes recognizable by --auto-compress).

---------- Post added 02-12-15 at 02:16 PM ----------

Wrong..it IS possible to do, if you had read the man page. Please don't post misleading or incorrect information.

I have tar version 1.27.1 from ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar. It doesn't supports this option --one-top-level.

But hey I found out another option which would work:

--strip-components=1

I somehow didn't remembered it. So tar does support what OP asked for.

battles · 02-13-2015, 07:42 AM

Thanks. man pages are sometimes a pain to find the correct answers.

TB0ne · 02-13-2015, 08:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by veerain

I have tar version 1.27.1 from ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar. It doesn't supports this option --one-top-level.

Version 1.28 does....since you're using LFS, it's odd you don't have the latest versions of things compiled/installed.

Quote:

But hey I found out another option which would work: --strip-components=1
I somehow didn't remembered it. So tar does support what OP asked for.

...and yet you said "Perhaps it's not possible."? Please, before misleading people with an incorrect answer, do some basic research first.

battles · 02-13-2015, 08:47 AM

root@me~# tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.26
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
root@me~# apt-get install --only-upgrade tar
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
tar is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 70 not upgraded.

Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae i686
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 7.5 (wheezy)

veerain · 02-13-2015, 10:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TB0ne

Version 1.28 does....since you're using LFS, it's odd you don't have the latest versions of things compiled/installed.

...and yet you said "Perhaps it's not possible."? Please, before misleading people with an incorrect answer, do some basic research first.

I did my basic research. But it is not necessary it would be fruitful.

TB0ne · 02-14-2015, 09:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by veerain

I did my basic research. But it is not necessary it would be fruitful.

You did?? Then why did you say it may not have been possible, THEN come back and say it WAS??? If you DID your research, you would have seen it WAS possible from the start, and not posted something incorrect and misleading.

yx0p · 02-14-2015, 04:18 PM

Yeah it is possible.

In addition - if you have a load of files and folders within a folder called "mytarfolder"

cd mytarfolder
tar -pczf mytarfolder.tar.gz *

That way when you extract the tar folder all of the files and folders within the tar.gz file will extract to the folder where the tar.gz file is.

Good Luck!