[PLUG] tar help

Sandy Herring sandy at herring.org
Thu May 3 19:35:24 UTC 2007


Circa 12:26:08 on Thu, 03 May 2007, User Iam wrote: 
> I can never remember
> 
> tar  -xvf   some.tar   <how do I tell it where to go>
> 
> I want it to be in the root directory
> 
> TIA
> 
> User Iam

tar -C /where/to/go -xvf some.tar

tar --help is your friend.

Sandy
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