How to extract files from a tar.gz

February 21, 2007 Charles Collier Linux, Tips and tricks, 0

usually people do:
$ cd backup/2007/02
$ tar -zxvf data.tar.gz

you can simply do:
tar -zxvf -C backup/2007/02 data.tar.gz

or even do it better:
cd backup/2007/02 && tar -zxvf data.tar.gz

the best way:
cd backup/2007/02 || mkdir -p backup/2007/02 && tar -zxvf data.tar.gz

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