Unaswered Questions

Date: 2008-01-25 | Tags: cygwin, linux, ubuntu | 2 Comments

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1. How do I unpack a tarball to a specific directory?

I know I can uncompress a tar file in the current working directory with tar –xvf mytarfile.tar. Can I upack it to another directory instead?

#1 Leonardo commented on 2008-01-26:

You can use the -C modifier:

tar -C destination_path -xvf yourtarfile.tar

#2 sofeng commented on 2008-01-28:

leonardo:
Thanks a lot!