Re: [Bug-tar] How to extract files to a directory

[Peng Yu]

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> wrote:
> Peng Yu <address@hidden> ha escrit:
>
>> tar xvf something.tar
>>
>> The above command by default extract the files to the current
>> directory. How to extract it to some other directory
>
> Either:
>
> cd somedir; tar xvf /path/to/something.tar
>
> or:
>
> tar -C somedir -xvf /path/to/something.tar
>
>> (if the directory doesn't exist, then create a new one)?
>
> test -d somedir || mkdir somedir; ...
>
> where `...' stands for one of above commands.
>
>> Is there an option for this?
>
> Nope, tar is not supposed to replace shell functionality in any way.

unzip has the option -d. I think that it would be convenient if tar
provides a similar option.

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Regards,
Peng