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Subject: Re: untarring a chicken I mean a file
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On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, brain_damaged wrote:

> 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.

It's in there. :-) Check out '-C'


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