Untarring to a directory other than $PWD 1

[spellbound1016]

I felt like being difficult and untarring a tarball to a directory other than my current working directory. I thought I could do it using pipes but I have been unsuccessful so far. Can anybody point in me in the right direction? The tar info page was not very helpful.

Thanks.

 

[pupu]

As far as I know, it is not possible. Try this:

cd destdir; tar xvf /some/where/tarfile.tar; cd -

 

[danielhozac]

Perhaps the [tt]-C[/tt] switch is what you are looking for.

//Daniel

 

[spellbound1016]

pupu,

I tried it but it only spewed out error messages. However...

Daniel,

This is the option I was looking for. Apparently I was not using it correctly the other day but I got this to work:

tar -C destdir -xvf file.tar

thanks!

 

[pupu]

...always something new...
;-)