Using tar

Corrado · 11-01-2006, 04:49 PM

I have been trying to extract something in tar and it isn't putting it in the location I want.

How do I extract a tar file in one directory and place its contents into another directory??

I am trying to place this command into a bash script.

Lets say my pwd is /, tar file is in /usr.
From / I want to extract the tar file in /usr to /usr/local

Anyone know how to do this? The man pages aren't helping.

Chris

stress_junkie · 11-01-2006, 05:09 PM

Code:

cd /usr/local
tar -xpf /usr/file.tar

or

Code:

tar -C /usr/local -xpf /usr/file.tar

I'm not going to test that. It should work.

Corrado · 11-01-2006, 07:03 PM

The second one seems to work. Thanks.