uncompressing a tar.bz2

[tman144566]

I am trying to decompress a file with an file ending of tar.bz2 without creating a directory or folder once decompressing the file and extracting the data. The only thing I know about extracting data from a file like this would be to
type the command tar -jxvf file.tar.bz2. I know this extracts the data but my main concern is how do you just extract the data instead of the data being in a newly created sub-directory such as (/the file's name/data in the tar.bz2 file). I have tried to google this information but I don't see what I want or maybe I don't know what I'm looking for. Once again I want to strictly extract the important data without the extra folder that is created to put the important data into.

Ex:
tar -jzvf test1.tar.bz2
/test1/data1
/test1/data2
/test1/data3
/test1/ect...

I want:
tar -jzvf test1.tar.bz2
/data1
/data2
/data3
/ect...


Thanks

[raghaven.kumar]

you cant do that since you compressed them with the folder test
if you want to that as you said, IMO, compress inside the test folder
i.e. ~/test$ tar -cvjf data.tar.bz2 data1 data2 data3
so on .....

[tman144566]

Thanks that helped!

[khafa]

actually you can do what you wanted to do in the first place
you do it as follows

tar --strip-components 1 -jxvf test1.tar.bz2

and test1 will be gone

[raghaven.kumar]

hey thanks, I never knew that !!