Unaswered Questions
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1. How do I unpack a tarball to a specific directory?
I know I can uncompress a tar file in the current working directory with tar –xvf mytarfile.tar. Can I upack it to another directory instead?
2 comments:
You can use the -C modifier:
tar -C destination_path -xvf yourtarfile.tar
leonardo:
Thanks a lot!
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