Darren Wyn Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What option do I give tar to untar a file into a specific location ? > > I've backed up /var; re-formatted the partition, and now I want to > untar things back to /var. I've gone through the manual, but can't > find the right option. (I need something like unzip's '-d exdir' > option).
A couple of options...if you want to be maximally compatible with various Unices, a pipeline like (cd /var; gzip -cd var-backup.tar.gz | tar xf -) is common. Using GNU tar (e.g. the one in Debian, and most other GNU/Linux distributions), you can use the -C option: tar -C /var -xzf var-backup.tar.gz -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
