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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Tar command to preserve the folder/file arrangement Post 302684421 by Lucky Ali on Thursday 9th of August 2012 02:23:16 PM
Old 08-09-2012
Tar command to preserve the folder/file arrangement
Hi,

I do have question for un tar a file. I have several 'tar'ed files. For example: SRS.tar.bz2. I was trying to untar them in a linux server using the command:
Code:
tar xvjf SRS.tar.bz2

It worked perfectly. but when I open this file in my mac computer all the files are extracted into a folder SRS (which is part of the compressed file). But in the linux cluster it is extracted into the main folder with out preserving the inherent file/folder arangement.

Pleass let me know the right command to preserve the folder arrangement?

Thanks
 

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