Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 22:40:00 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Olivier Cortes <olive@deep-ocean.net> Cc: m p <sumirati@yahoo.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to untar a .tgz file Message-ID: <20010822224000.A56075@student.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <20010822174234.A37914@APastourelles-102-1-2-26.abo.wa> References: <20010822150841.63108.qmail@web13302.mail.yahoo.com> <20010822174234.A37914@APastourelles-102-1-2-26.abo.wa>
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On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 05:42:34PM +0200, Olivier Cortes wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 05:08:41PM +0200, m p wrote: > > It should be: > > > > tar -xzvf /file/to/untar.tgz /path/to/extract/to > > no, no. > this way your are trying to find the file "/path/to/extract/to" in the > archive and extract it in your current working dir. > > with gnu tar (gtar), you can use option -C /path to do what you want. > with bsd tar (the one aimed here), i don't know. i go in the good dir > before extracting ! FreeBSD uses the GNU version of tar (albeit an older and somewhat modified version) so the -C option works fine with FreeBSD too. So to unpack the contents of a gziped tar file into a specific directory the invocation could be: tar zxvf /file/to/unpack.tgz -C /destination/directory/ Or one could cd to the right directory and just do tar zxvf /path/to/file.tgz -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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