Installing Tar

[R Kimber]

On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:50:19 +0100
Tom H wrote:

> And if does not have a directory in the tarball, you can create a
> directory into which to untar it
> mkdir dir4tar
> tar xvf archive -C dir4tar

Indeed. But it's probably quicker to create the directory, move to it, and
use the usual command as it is to look inside the file and then decide to
use the above variant.  Habitual practices can be quite efficient.

- Richard.
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