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extract tar.gz to absolute path

i'm helping somebody build a web page, and want to have a tar.gz archive of the whole file tree extract into /var/www/html/weblog. the file tree has been archived by adding /home/user/var to the archive, so that the top folder in the archive is /var. how do i insure the file tree in the archive drops into /var on the web server when it's extracted? the actual file tree inside the archive is /var/www/html/weblog with several subdirectories included below weblog. i see plenty of people ask online how to extract into a relative path, because the search terms "extract tar.gz to absolute path" brings up scads of questions on how to avoid extraction to absolute paths.

Use the -C switch when extracting always pointing to the top of the tree from your archive.
https://superuser.com/questions/3638...oes-tar-c-mean

Code:

cd /home/user/

tar -czpf /yourpath/weblog.tar.gz var/www/html/weblog/

tar -xzpf /yourpath/weblog.tar.gz -C /home/user/

#or

cd /

tar -czpf /yourpath/weblog.tar.gz home/user/var/www/html/weblog/

tar -xzpf /yourpath/weblog.tar.gz -C /