On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 11:29:53PM -0500, rpjday wrote:
>
> On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, cajun wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to direct a tar file to extract to a certain directory ?
>
> i'm not sure i'd recommend doing this, but gnu tar has the
> "-P" or "--absolute-paths" option that will leave leading
> slashes on the filenames in the archive to guarantee that
> the restore is done to that absolute location. is that what
> you were looking for? just be warned that this removes the
> flexibility of restoring anywhere else. you're better off
> cd'ing to the appropriate location first before running
> the restore.
GNU tar has a 'O' option:
tar xOf tarfile.tar member.file > member.file
will extract a file named "member.file" from a tar file named "tarfile.tar",
write it to standard out which will then be redirected (by the shell) to
a file in the current directory named "member.file".
With that you should be able to do what you want.
Fred
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