>>>>> "Darren" == Darren Wyn Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Darren> What option do I give tar to untar a file into a specific
Darren> location ? I've backed up /var; re-formatted the
Darren> partition, and now I want to untar things back to /var.
Darren> I've gone through the manual, but can't find the right
Darren> option. (I need something like unzip's '-d exdir' option).
Darren> -- Darren Wyn Rees
-C is your switch
Something like:
tar xzvf xxx.tar.gz -C /path/to/dir
for extracting the compressed tar archive here into the dir after -C
...
man tar - and info tar for a lot of info ;-)
[...]
-C, --directory DIR
change to directory DIR
[...]
HTH,
MH
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(Dr.) Michael Hummel
mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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