unzipping files in rhel
 

Hie guys i have created a zipped file in RHE using this command
tar -cvf /u01/850553.tar 850553/
location of the files is now in
/u01/850553.tar

Now i want to unzip it into a different file directory which is
/u01/share/docs

how do i go about it

Hi

You can cd into /u01/share/docs then run tar xvf /path/to/file

ok thank you i got it but why does it have to create directory /u01/8505583 when it extracts in only need 8505583 directory

Hi

You could use
tar -C /path/of/destinantion -xvf /path/of/tar

If you named the tar file 8505583 it would extract to that dir

it creates that directory because you used TAR
a tar ball is NOT a "zip" archive

it is uncompressed
a targz or tgz or tar.gz
is a "G" zipped tar archive

but a .tar is NOT a zip archive