Re: extracting tarball to a location other than ./

[Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kk288@cornell.edu>]

Bruno Hertz wrote:
> 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 -)

The above method will not function as intended, if the destdir is not 
present. So I would go with

cat tarfile.tgz | (cd destdir && tar xzvf -)

raju