Tar problem!!

[ndog4ever]

i am trying to figure out the correct flags to untar a file and make its content stay in that current directory

tar -xvf namedb_backup -C /opt/chroot/opt/bind/var/named

that does nothing, if i just issue the tar -xvf namedb_backup , then it trys to extract to another directory. Is there a way around this? If there is please let me know, i dont want to have to move all these directories manually.

Thanks,

Nate

 

[jamisar]

PWD=`pwd`
mkdir -p /opt/chroot/opt/bind/var/named
cd /opt/chroot/opt/bind/var/named
tar xfvp $PWD/namedb_backup
............NOTA
assumed namedb_backup is a tarfile AND is NOT a tarfile of an absolute path, in this case, you need 'chroot'
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