HOW TO extract.tar file to specific directory..?

UNIX Solaris
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Hi all,

In Solaris howto extract tar file to specific folder.

This is what we do in Linux, but how to do the same thing in Solaris ?

-tar     -xzvf   /tmp/etc.tar.bz  -C /tmp

(Will extract in /tmp dir)

3.gzip COMPRESSION AND EXTRACTION
-tar     -czvf  /tmp/etc.tar.bz     /etc
-du           -csh   /tmp/etc.tar.bz   7.4M
-tar     -xzvf   /tmp/etc.tar.bz
-tar     -xzvf   /tmp/etc.tar.bz  -C /tmp

(Will extract in /tmp dir)

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Usually, the tar has a relative path, which you can see in the t output. It will make the leading directory if any. So, run tar in the target directory where you want that subtree:

( cd somewhere ; tar xf - ) < whatever.tar
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Lets say you want to tar testzone.tar in /zones directory

# mv testzone.tar /zones
# cd /zones 
verify that the file is in the /zones director
# ls
# tar xf testzone.tar
# ls
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Hi cjashu

What you say is right but, if I need to write in script extract in particular directory then your method wont work.

May be what DGPickett said would work...

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Unix tar does not have a built-in (de)compression.
The advantage is that the newest (de)compression methods can be used without updating the tar binary.
The disadvantage is that you must get used to complex shell code.
Example:

bunzip2 -c whatever.tar.bz2 | ( cd somewhere && tar xvf - )

The && is safer than the semicolon.

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Yes, more generally, just decompress stdin:

any_appropriate_decompress_tool <yours.some_comp_tar_ext | ( cd somewhere && tar xvf - )

gunzip or gzcat for .tgz, .tar.gz and .tar.Z,
uncompress for tar.Z,
bunzip2 for .tbz or .tar.bz2

Pipes are neat for moving stuff through rsh/ssh to another host without making a local copy of the compressed file.