Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kk288@cornell.edu> writes: > 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 -) Sure :) Maybe even better (cd destdir) && cat tarfile.tgz | (cd destdir && tar xzvf -) which avoids even the cat in case 'cd destdir' fails. Regards, Bruno.