Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
> Dubious Dude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I want to extract a number of files from a tar.gz archive.
>> I want to extract them all into a single directory, regardless
>> of their path in the archive. I haven't found a switch in the
>> gnu manual for this. Is it possible? I realize I can extract
>> them into the directories as per their full path, then move
>> them to a common directory. But if gnu can extract them into
>> the common directory, I use that feature of course.
>
> But you can flatten the result with (untested):
>
> tar -C output -zxf archive.tar.gz
> cd output
> find . -type f -exec mv -i {} . \;
> find * -type d -prune -exec rm -rf {} \;
Thank you, Pascal. I was thinking about "find" for the case
where a suitable switch is not available for tar.
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