Re: [Bug-tar] question regarding extraction to different paths (request)

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Igor Lautar <address@hidden> wrote:

> I appologize if this is not the correct mailing-list, but it is the only one
> for GNU tar...

It is the right one, don't worry.
 
> Is it possible to extract file1 into /dir2 and file2 into dir3?

No, it is not.
 
> Is it possible to extract both files into same directory, but so that dir1
> is not created?
> This would give (if using dir2):
> 
> /dir2/file1
> /dir2/file2

Yes, you can do this using -C and --strip-components options:

mkdir dir2
tar -C dir2 --strip=1 -xf archive.tar

You will need at least version 1.14 for that.
 
Regards,
Sergey