Peng Yu <[email protected]> ha escrit: > tar xvf something.tar > > The above command by default extract the files to the current > directory. How to extract it to some other directory
Either: cd somedir; tar xvf /path/to/something.tar or: tar -C somedir -xvf /path/to/something.tar > (if the directory doesn't exist, then create a new one)? test -d somedir || mkdir somedir; ... where `...' stands for one of above commands. > Is there an option for this? Nope, tar is not supposed to replace shell functionality in any way. Regards, Sergey
