A colleague of mine asked about extracting the contents of a compressed tarball into a particular directory. I suggested downloading the tarball into the /tmp directory. It was a fairly large tarball consisting of several hundred megabytes. Here's an example of what was done.
#cd /tmp
#zcat compressed_tarball.Z | (cd /export/opt; tar xvfp -)
3 comments:
you can also use -C destination_folder option to tar. It's more efficient especially if the file is large because it doesn't have to pipe
tar xvpf your_Tarball.Z -C /export/opt
mihai,
Thanks for sharing that tip with this community blog.
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