Urgent....untar!!!

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HI UNIX GURUS...
I am facing the a similar problem which malaymaru has posted earlier raegarding untaring a file in some other specified directory.But the solution by UNIX DAEMON "Perderabo" seems little difficult to understand.(USING #pax -r -s '=^/opt/abc=/tmp=' < tarfile)

So plz explain it.........i know this question has been posted earlier.But the number of replies is very less and little difficult to understand.So plz help.

The exact problem statement as follows:--

Suppose a directory is there in /abc/def/source_directory.
Now i make a tar of this directory as source_directory.tar and am successfully able to
ftp it to another server in the path ghi/jkl/source_directory.tar
Now how do i untar the source_directory.tar in the path ghi/jkl only.Now when i try to
untar it from my script using rexec command.the it is being untared to the HOME DIRECTORY
which i believe is happening due to conflict of path when untar is happening....
sample code i m using in my script to untar at the destination server once i m successfully able to ftp the filename.tar.gz file:
rexec azx.corp.asd.com gunzip $2/"$filename".tar.gz
rexec qwe.corp.fgt.com tar -xvf $2/"$filename".tar
plz post the exact solution...

Thanx,
rhaul26 :confused:

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I'm a bit confused by the two different machine names:

Can you clarify exactly what the full series of steps is.

cheers

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Actually the series of step is as follows:--

i)I m successfully able to ftp a .tar.gz file to a remote location.

ii)Question is how i untar it from script in host only.
I tried using rexec command.
rexec idm.adf.com(name of remote location) gunzip abc/def/something.tar.gz
So after this commad is executed,the .tar file is formed as abc/def/something.tar

But now when i try to unzip it there bu using
rexec idm.adf.com(name of remote location) tar -xvf abc/def/something.tar
The tar file is being formed at the home directory instead of the specifeid path.

Hope it helps.............Plz reply.........very few replies till date.......

Thanx
rahul26

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since you have acces to both machines, why not do it the simplest way?

what creating the tar file, go to the directory you want to tar and make a relative path archinve, then when you untar it it will extract in the CWD.

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Hi...
But one if one wants to do the same for 40 Application servers.

regards,
Rahul