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Re: Gnu Tar: Extracting files into a single directory
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Pascal Bourguignon |
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Re: Gnu Tar: Extracting files into a single directory |
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Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:55:37 +0200 |
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Dubious Dude <Shifty@eyes.com> writes:
> I want to extract a number of files from a tar.gz archive.
> I want to extract them all into a single directory, regardless
> of their path in the archive. I haven't found a switch in the
> gnu manual for this. Is it possible? I realize I can extract
> them into the directories as per their full path, then move
> them to a common directory. But if gnu can extract them into
> the common directory, I use that feature of course.
But you can flatten the result with (untested):
tar -C output -zxf archive.tar.gz
cd output
find . -type f -exec mv -i {} . \;
find * -type d -prune -exec rm -rf {} \;
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