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laucian 03-20-2008 03:48 AM
opening tar to another directory
 
hi everyone..
in /home/user1 there is a file.tar ..and i want to extract it to /home/user2/openedFiles...

i thought syntax should be

tar xvzf file.tar /home/user2/openedFiles

but there is something missing i guess, it doesn't work..can anyone help?

zeeshanhayat 03-20-2008 03:56 AM
tar -zxvf tarball.tar.gz -C <directory>

laucian 03-20-2008 03:57 AM
ohhh my god!!
why would they need an extra option tag for that?

reddazz 03-20-2008 03:57 AM
If its just a tar file, you can do
Code:
$tar xvf somefile.tar -C <directory>


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