Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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· gordjw

Untar/unzip to a specific directory

#command line
#linux
#zip
#tar
#untar
#unzip

Because I always forget which is which...

tar -xf /home/gordjw/ball.tar -C /tmp

unzip /home/gordjw/ball.zip -d /tmp
#command line
#linux
#zip
#tar
#untar
#unzip

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