Re: extracting tarball to a location other than ./

["Bruno Hertz" <brrhtz@yahoo.de>]

Michael Marsh <michael.a.marsh@gmail.com> writes:

> 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

Another variation:
cat tarfile.tgz | (cd destdir; tar zxvf -)