Comments on: How to Extract Tar Files to Specific or Different Directory in Linux

By: Pascal

Pascal — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 05:12:33 +0000

Great article.

Just to note that “Example 4: Extract Only Specific or Selected Files from Tar Archive” is the wrong syntax.

The order of the arguments has to be changed. The single files or directories to be extracted need to be last:

It shall read

# tar -xvf etc.tar  -C /backup/tar_extracts/    etc/issue etc/fuse.conf etc/mysql/

reference: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9249779

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 08:59:38 +0000

In reply to SHIVANI UMEACADEMY. COM.

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By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 15:04:01 +0000

In reply to Ravi Saive.

Oh… if I change the order it works. If I move the “–directory ” earlier in the args, it works.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 15:00:55 +0000

In reply to Ravi Saive.

I have the same issue as @Ren, and in my case I have created the destination dir… no matter how I specify things the extracted file always ends up in the current directory.