How to uncompress a tar gz in another directory

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I have an archive        tar gz   How can I uncompress this in a destination directory

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Extracts myArchive tar to  destinationDirectory  Commands    cd  destinationDirectory pax -rv -f myArchive tar -s

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gzip -dc archive tar gz   tar -xf - -C  destination   or  with GNU tar  tar xzf archive tar gz -C  destination

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You can use the option -C  or --directory if you prefer long options  to give the target directory of your choice in case you are using the Gnu version of tar   The directory should exist   mkdir foo tar -xzf bar tar gz -C foo   If you are not using a tar capable of extracting to a specific directory  you can simply cd into your target directory prior to calling tar  then you will have to give a complete path to your archive  of course   You can do this in a scoping subshell to avoid influencing the surrounding script   mkdir foo  cd foo  tar -xzf    bar tar gz     instead of     you can use an absolute path as well   Or  if neither an absolute path nor a relative path to the archive file is suitable  you also can use this to name the archive outside of the scoping subshell   TARGET PATH a very complex path which might even be absolute mkdir -p   TARGET PATH   cd   TARGET PATH   tar -xzf -   lt  bar tar gz

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You can use for loop to untar multiple  tar gz files to another folder  The following code will take  destination folder path as an argument to the script and untar all  tar gz files present at the current location in  destination folder path   if      -ne 1     then  echo  invalid argument s   echo  Usage    script-file-name sh  target directory   exit 0 fi for file in   tar gz do     tar -zxvf   file  --directory  1 done

[unix] How to uncompress a tar.gz in another directory

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