opening tar to another directory

laucian · 03-20-2008, 03:48 AM

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>