Re: extracting tarball to a location other than ./

[Andrey Andreev <andreev@cs.helsinki.fi>]

Michael Marsh wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:20:52 -0500, Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca> wrote:
> > ok, I give up -- how do I tell tar to extract a tarball to a location
> > other than ./ ?  I 've been through the info pages but didn't notie
> > the solution in any of the obvious places.
> I usually cd to the destination directory and worry about the path to
> the tarfile:
> $ cd src
> $ tar xvf ../downloads/tarfile.tgz

Hi,

Markko's solution seems to be the answer to the specific question, but 
if I take it from where Michael stopped, and steer a bit offtopic, you 
might want to check the pushd/popd/dirs built-in commands in bash, which 
could be useful if you are scripting.

Andro

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Andrey Andreev
University of Helsinki
Dept. of Computer Science