compress tar question

[schocku]

Simple question...
* I have a a.tar.Z compressed file in directory A.
* I want to uncompress and untar the files in a.tar.Z and put them in directory B.

Is there a more efficient way than doing it in 3 steps...
- cp A/a.tar.Z B/.
- uncompress B/a.tar.Z
- tar -xvf B/a.tar

Thanks for your help.

 

[PHV]

If you have gtar (GNU tar) you can try this:

gtar -xvZf A/a.tar.Z

Hope This Help
PH.

 

[PHV]

If you don't have gnu tar, you can try this:

uncompress -c A/a.tar.Z | tar -xvf -

Hope This Help
PH.

 

[schocku]

Thanks that works.