Re: Gnu Tar: Extracting files into a single directory

Dubious Dude <[email protected]> writes:
> I want to extract a number of files from a tar.gz archive.
> I want to extract them all into a single directory, regardless
> of their path in the archive.  I haven't found a switch in the
> gnu manual for this.  Is it possible?  I realize I can extract
> them into the directories as per their full path, then move
> them to a common directory.  But if gnu can extract them into
> the common directory, I use that feature of course.

But you can flatten the result with (untested):

tar -C output -zxf archive.tar.gz
cd output
find . -type f -exec mv -i {} . \;
find * -type d -prune -exec rm -rf {} \;



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