• PlexSheep
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    6 months ago

    Thanks for the explanation, I might use more pipes now. Is it correct, that tar will restore the files in the tarball in the current directory?

    • AVincentInSpace@pawb.social
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      6 months ago

      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