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minus-squareAVincentInSpacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months 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
Yes. 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