Re: Gnu Tar: Extracting files into a single directory

Dubious wrote:

> tar.gz archive. I want to extract them all into a single directory,
> regardless of their path in the archive.

$ zcat archive.tar.gz | pax                 
./
./dir/
./dir/subdir/
./dir/subdir/b
./dir/subdir/a
./dir/a

$ zcat archive.tar.gz | pax -r  -s ',.*/,,p'
./ >> 
./dir/ >> 
./dir/subdir/ >> 
./dir/subdir/b >> b
./dir/subdir/a >> a
./dir/a >> a

$ ls
a       b