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Subject: untarring a chicken I mean a file
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When I d/l a file I do a
tar -xvzf file.name and it untars in the home directory of the user i have logged in with. Fine.
but when I try to untar it to say /home/untarred
it won't. get a message saying /home/untarred not found in archive.

I tried tar -xvzf file.name /home/untarred
and /home/untarred/
and tar -xvz file.name /home/untarred
and > /home/untarred and said is a directory.

how do I untar something to a specific location or can't I .
Yes i read man tar but did not get it from that.

thanks
md

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