Untarring in Command Line Interface

[mdurrant]

Hi, I'm no linux command line expert, I'd just like to know how to untar a file from one directory, into another.

IE:

/home/something/html/archive.tar.gz

I want to tar -xvzf this archive into

/home/something/html/somethingelse/thisdirectory

Thanks

[jamie]

hi mdurrant,

you need to use the -C switch

tar -zxvf mytararchive.tar.gz -C /path/to/some/directory

[mdurrant]

Thanks :P That's what I needed