help with 'tar'

[felipe1982]

I downloaded a little package from the 'net. I tried to extract ONE member (one file) from the archive and place it in a different directory (a directory other than the current one).

felipe@anarchy:~> tar -tf bitflu-current.tgz
bitflu.pl
plugins/
plugins/Bitflu/
plugins/Bitflu/StorageFarabDb.pm
plugins/Bitflu/Cron.pm
plugins/Bitflu/DownloadHTTP.pm
plugins/Bitflu/DownloadBitTorrent.pm
plugins/Bitflu/AdminTelnet.pm
plugins/Bitflu/SourcesBitTorrent.pm
felipe@anarchy:~>tar -xzf bitflu-current.tgz bitflu.pl -C ./bin/

Instead of putting the file in ./bin/ it put it in ./ (current dir) instead. I can't seem to make it put 'bitflu.pl' into ./bin/

I read through info tar and man tar but I didn't find answers to my Q. Obviously I can just user 'mv' to move it to ./bin, but that's not quite the point. I want to learn how to do this properly, using native 'tar' commands.

Any help is appreciated.

tar version: tar-1.15.1-42.2@i586 opensuse 10.2

[tpl]

> I can't seem to make it put 'bitflu.pl' into
> ./bin/

try the -O switch (save to stdout) then redirect:

tar <blah,blah,blah> -O >./bin/bitflu.pl

[felipe1982]

I solved it:
WRONG WAY:
tar -xzf bitflu-current.tgz bitflu.pl -C ./bin/

RIGHT WAY:
tar -xzf bitflu-current.tgz -C ./bin bitflu.pl

The "-C" has to happen BEFORE extracting the tar member.

-that is all