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Want to unpack tarball into specified directory

Asked by Sam Quintanar

I know how to unpack a tar.gz tarball (tar -xzf tar-file-name.tar.gz), but I I'd like to know the command-line command to
unpack a .gz tarball that resides in directory "x" so it unpacks in directory "y".

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Best Ian Ace (iaculallad) said : 		#1

Try it with:

tar xvzf file.tgz path/to/directory

or

tar xvzf /from/directory/file.tgz /path/to/directory

HTH.

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Sam Quintanar (robosq) said : 		#2

Thanks Ian Ace A. Culallad, that solved my question.