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Daryl Spitzer
Asked: 2010-05-22 11:10:08 +0800 CST

What are the command-line options for un-tarring a tar.gz file to a specific directory?

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This is one of those things I don't quite do often enough to memorize. I thought it would be nice to have the answer here so I (and maybe others with as poor a memory as me) can star it.

What command-line options to I use to un-tar a tar.gz file into a specific directory, on Linux?

gzip tar

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  1. Best Answer
    tar xzf file.tgz -C directory

    But directory must be created before you can fill it If you don't define -C, it is extract in the current directory

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  2. From man tar:

       tar -xvvzf foo.tar.gz
          extract gzipped foo.tar.gz
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