extract tar.gz under a specific folder

melanie_pfefer · February 20, 2009, 2:51am

Hi,

How to extract a tar.gz file and put it under a designated folder that I specify in a one line command?

thank you in advance.

melanie_pfefer · February 20, 2009, 3:02am

Hi,

cd /destinationfolder && pax -r < files.tar

has one inconvenient:

it does a cd to destinationfolder.

I want to stay where the script was executed.

thanks

jegaraman · February 24, 2009, 8:54am

gzip -dc /<Source Location.gz> | tar xf -

pludi · February 24, 2009, 9:20am

gzip -dc archive.tar.gz | tar -xf - -C /destination

or, with GNU tar

tar xzf archive.tar.gz -C /destination