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Old 02-11-2010
untarring to the wrong dir

I am fairly new to scripting.
I have a script to untar files as they come in.
I keep scripts in one directory: /Scripts
I get a tar'ed file in /Processing

*CMD*
Code:
$tar -xfv /Processing/File.tar

When i run the script the untared files are placed in /Scripts
i did some hunting around and found -C
*CMD*
Code:
$tar -xfv /Processing/File.tar -C /Processing

however now the file will not untar
Please point me in the right direction. thank you

Last edited by vbe; 02-11-2010 at 11:33 AM.. Reason: code tags...
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Old 02-11-2010
The main reason is -C is used as to archive using relative path e.g. ./.
Why dont you put /script in your PATH environment variable, so you can
Code:
cd  /Processing;
tar -xvf ./File.tar

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Old 02-11-2010
Thank you, working now.
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