On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 14:53 -0800, Peter Gordon wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Joseph wrote: > | Is there a way to untar content of a file to a different folder? > | > Try using the '-C <directory>' option: > $ tar -xzf /path/to/archive.tar.gz -C /where/to/unpack > > Hope that helps!
This is like redirecting the content of the archive to specific folder. What I wanted to do is to suppress/overwrite the extracted directory name to my own name. Example if I do: $ tar -xzf archive.tar.gz -C my_folder I get: /my_folder/archive What I wanted to change is the name of the original folder to different one; example from: archive to archive-temp to the content would not generate "archive" but "archive-temp" archive-temp/ Though I'm not sure it this can be done. -- #Joseph -- [email protected] mailing list
