hundred files to tar and untar

[Jerry McAllister]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 08:10:36AM -0500, chloe K wrote:

> Hi 
>    
>   I have hundred files to tar
>    
>   How can I make tar the file but untar in different folder?
>    

Just use cd.  You can use cd in a script just like you would
at the command line.

cd /what/ever/the/source/directory/is
tar cvf ../htmlstuff.tar /cc.html
mkdir -p /where/ever/you/want/it 
cd /where/ever/you/want/it
tar xvf /what/ever/the/source/directory/htmlstuff.tar

This would eliminate the directory tree being recreated 
where you unroll the tar presuming that fantasy path I first cd to
is, in your example, /var/web/data/verion

If you want to preserve that directory path in the new place you do

cd /
tar cvf /htmlstuff.tar /what/ever/the/source/directory/is/cc.html
mkdir -p /where/ever/you/want/it
cd /where/ever/you/want/it
tar xvf /htmlstuff.tar

You can put that in a loop in your script if it can pick up 
the file names and directory paths to plug in the commands.

>   eg:
>    
>   tar cvf html.tar /var/web/data/verion/cc.html
>    
>   untar html.tar /var/web/data/root/cc.html
>    
>   Thank you
> 
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