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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•1 year agoThanks for the explanation, I might use more pipes now. Is it correct, that tar will restore the files in the tarball in the current directory?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoYes. You can specify tar -C somedir if you want it to extract them somewhere else. As a rule of thumb, I always extract my tarballs in a newly created, empty directory, just in case whoever packed it didn’t put all its files in a subdir
Thanks for the explanation, I might use more pipes now. Is it correct, that tar will restore the files in the tarball in the current directory?
Yes. You can specify
tar -C somedirif you want it to extract them somewhere else.As a rule of thumb, I always extract my tarballs in a newly created, empty directory, just in case whoever packed it didn’t put all its files in a subdir