how to run tar wtihout re-create folders

[canadatom]

Hello everyone,

I have a tar.gz file containing many sub-folders, I am trying to untar the file so all the files in sub-folders will be extracted into the one folder, I know how to use ubuntu tar GUI program to do it by uncheck option called re-create folders, but how can I do it in shell by using tar command?
tar -xvf name.tar.gz will re-create folders by default, I don't see any option to override this, anyone can help?

Thanks,

Tom

[Rubberman]

I don't know of a way to do that with 'tar'. I just read thru the manpage and could not find anything there either. What I would do is to extract the tarball and then use the 'find' command to move all the files to the current directory. Ie,

tar -xzvf tarball
find . -type -exec mv -f {} . \;

You might see some warnings from 'mv' about files being the same, and if there are duplicate file names in the archive, then what you get in your local directory will be the last one found. If you leave off the -f argument from mv, then you will be asked if you want to overwrite duplicate-named files. Finally, remove the directories created by extracting the archive.

[canadatom]

this is really helpful, I think shell script method works.

I also tried using 7-zip to unzip the tar.gz file by typing:

7z e filename.tar.gz

it will automatically extract all the files into current directory.

[Rubberman]

this is really helpful, I think shell script method works.

I also tried using 7-zip to unzip the tar.gz file by typing:

7z e filename.tar.gz

it will automatically extract all the files into current directory.

Well, that's certainly easier. Haven't used 7zip much, so that's good to know. TAL for the info.