Tar

Rubal · 07-21-2003, 04:31 AM

let's assume you have file.tar.gz, you could do the following:
1. gunzip file.tar ( it removes the .gz and create tar)
2. tar -tvf file.tar to view its contents
3. tar -xvf file.tar to extract files from the tar

but when i do it extracts the files in a newly created subdirectory /file

How can i use tar so that it extracts it file to the directory i specify .. like i m on /root/username and i wanna extract the tar to /usr/tmp/honolulu

Help Me

Thanks

acid_kewpie · 07-21-2003, 04:38 AM

you're doing it the long way anyway:

tar -zxvf file.tar.gz

but (as you can read in your man pages) you should be able to do:

tar -zxvf file-tar.gz -C /directory/some/where

Poetics · 07-21-2003, 05:34 PM

You can also cd into the destination directory and execute

tar -zxvf /path/to/tar/file-tar.gz