Re: [gentoo-user] How to untar without first knowing the tar contents?

[Willie Wong]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 09:15:47AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> MacMini home # tar -xjf /mnt/cdrom/evelyn.20100214.tar.bz2 /home/evelyn/
> tar: /home/evelyn: Not found in archive

You need the -C flag. See man tar. 

W
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