Re: tar to different folder

From: Andreas Schulze (b79xan_at_gmx.de)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 10:07:27 +0200

"mr kay" <mrkhairy@yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:61039684.0406292128.7865c05b@posting.google.com...
> Hi,
>
> does anyone know how to extract (tar) files to different folder? I
> would like to extract /home/user/note.txt to /tmp directory.
>
> Thanks

Hi,

Use pax to extract tar archive to different directory/folder without
playing around with mount command.
# pax -rpe -f /dev/rmt0 -s:^/home/user/:/tmp/:g

HTH,
Andreas

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