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# 1  
Old 11-30-2012
Extract compressed tarball to folder?
This is for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.7 (Tikanga).

Wanna extract entire contents of a tar.gz to a folder of my choosing. Thanks
# 2  
Old 11-30-2012
The tarball has to have relative paths - ie.,
Code:
./somefile or ./somedir/somefile

Be sure you have relative paths:
Code:
tar xft tar.gz | head

extract:
Code:
cd somedir
tar zxf tar.gz

# 3  
Old 11-30-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
...
Be sure you have relative paths:
Code:
tar xft tar.gz | head

...
@Jim
I suppose you meant
Code:
tar zft tar.gz | head

Smilie
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