Re: [CentOS] tar and gunzip help

ML wrote:

HI All,

I have a directory tree that when the user un-gzips/untars it does into /opt by default.

The directory tree is like:

ugui | |-- <misc files> |-- source |-----framework |------ <misc files>

so when unzipped I want to end it with /opt/ugui and all the stuff below it.

I'm not sure what you are asking here. If you cd to /tmp and untar the file, what does it do?

How do I do this? Can I also issue one command that will unzip and untar the archive at the same time? (I know I can, I just cant get it right)

You can unzip and untar with "tar xzf filename" with a recent version of tar.