This doesn’t work:
tar xf /tmp/foo.tar.gz foo/bar tar: foo/bar: Not found in archive
It’s not obvious to me what would do this beyond extracting it in place and moving the files over.
Answers:
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Method 1
From man tar:
-C directory
In c and r mode, this changes the directory before adding the
following files. In x mode, change directories after opening the
archive but before extracting entries from the archive.
i.e, tar xC /foo/bar -f /tmp/foo.tar.gz should do the job.
(on FreeBSD, but GNU tar is basically the same in this respect, see “Changing the Working Directory” in its manual)
Method 2
if you want to extract an tar archive elsewhere just cd to the destination directory and untar it there:
mkdir -p foo/bar cd foo/bar tar xzvf /tmp/foo.tar.gz
The command you’ve used would search the file foo/bar in the archive and extract it.
Method 3
Doing:
(cd foo/bar ; tar xf /tmp/foo.tar.gz )
would do the job.
Basically, what is does is spawning a new shell (the parentheses), in this subshell, change directory to foo/bar and then untar the file.
You can change the ; by a && to be sure the cd works fine.
Method 4
The command:
tar -xzvf foo.tar.gz -C /home/user/bar/
will extract the input file “foo.tar.gz”, into the directory /home/user/bar, while printing the processed files.
Method 5
Change the directory where you want to extract
cd /u02/restore
if location of the extract file under /u01/backup.tar then
Extract as follows:
cd /u02/restore tar -xvf /u01/backup.tar
Method 6
tar -xf ancd.tar.gz my/name/file
you can give file name with ./file after tar file.
tar -xf ancd.tar.gz ./my/name/file
if it is working means you have created a tar with ./. use less command to see tar content.
less ...tar.file
Method 7
I ran into what seems to be a similar issue and have resolved it.
The issue was in the file creation rather than the created file.
When attempting to tar up and transfer a file in dir A, I provided the path to the original file in the tar command
tar -cvf MyFile.tar /foo/bar/dir/not/needed/path/*
What I was able to do to resolve is
cd /foo/bar/dir/not/needed/ tar -cvf /tmp/MyFile.tar path*
On transferring and extracting the tarball, the required subdirs are created.
tar -xvf MyFile.tar
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