extract tar.gz to folder with certain name?

[ChrisMartino]

Hey dose anyone know the command i would need to run to extract a .tar.gz file to the directory before the one that it's in with a special name for the folder name that it extracts too?, Thanks, Chris.

[trq]

As far as I know you'll need to create the directory first.

 

mkdir ../foo ; tar xvpf tarfile.tar.gz -C ../foo

[oni-kun]

It shouldn't be needed, It will cd and create it automatically (GNU tar)

tar -xzvf tarfile.tar.gz -C ../foo

 

The -p parameter maintains permissions, in case the user mask is set which may be want to be left out if != root.

[trq]

GNU's tar will not create any directory using the -C switch, just change to an existing directory.

[ChrisMartino]

As far as I know you'll need to create the directory first.

 

mkdir ../foo ; tar xvpf tarfile.tar.gz -C ../foo

 

Thats brilliant, One problem though, Inside the .tar.gz there is a file, THEN the files that i need to be extracted into the folder that we made, Is there any way to just get the contents of the folder 'ivmpsvr' from within the .tar.gz?, Thanks.

[tomfmason]

just use

mkdir ../foo ; tar xvpf tarfile.tar.gz ivmpsvr -C ../foo

[ChrisMartino]

just use

mkdir ../foo ; tar xvpf tarfile.tar.gz ivmpsvr -C ../foo

 

It doesn't extract it now :/

 

$ssh->exec('cd /home/'.$ClientFolder.' && mkdir '.$ServerID.' && cd /home/Games && tar xvpf '.$game.'.tar.gz ivmpsvr -C ../'.$ClientFolder.'/'.$ServerID);

[tomfmason]

just use

mkdir ../foo ; tar xvpf tarfile.tar.gz ivmpsvr -C ../foo

 

It doesn't extract it now :/

 

$ssh->exec('cd /home/'.$ClientFolder.' && mkdir '.$ServerID.' && cd /home/Games && tar xvpf '.$game.'.tar.gz ivmpsvr -C ../'.$ClientFolder.'/'.$ServerID);

 

is the ivmpsvr directory in the root of the archive? If not you will need to specify the path to it. You may need to do something like:

$ssh->exec('cd /home/'.$ClientFolder.' && mkdir '.$ServerID.' && cd /home/Games && tar xvpf '.$game.'.tar.gz '.$game.'/ivmpsvr -C ../'.$ClientFolder.'/'.$ServerID);