Extracting .tar.bz2 file WITHOUT Contained Directories

[DarylLyn]

I have a file: daily_SVG_snapshot.tar.bz2

It contains 8025 files in 630 directories.

I want to extract all 8025 files into one directory.

What is the command line for this?

--OR--

I want to copy/move 8025 files from 630 directories into one directory, using only a short command line command. "cp -v ./*/*.svg .", and "cp -r *.svg ." did not work, and I am not too hot on making a shell script to handle 630 directories individually.

Thanks for any help.

[paq7512]

tar xvjf filename.tar.bz2

[valan]

Tar doesn't have an option that I saw to do this. You'll probably need to make up a script to handle it.

[vijay2win]

[root@sjdevcon01 webex]# mkdir /tmp/vijay
[root@sjdevcon01 webex]# cp -f `find . -name "*.jar" -type f` /tmp/vijay/
[root@sjdevcon01 webex]# ll /tmp/vijay/
total 84
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79780 Sep 30 21:38 wapicom-2.1.jar
[root@sjdevcon01 webex]# cp -f `find . -type f` /tmp/vijay/
cp: overwrite `/tmp/vijay/wapicom-2.1.jar'? y
[root@sjdevcon01 webex]# ll /tmp/vijay/
total 120
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 284 Sep 30 21:38 maven-metadata.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32 Sep 30 21:38 maven-metadata.xml.md5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40 Sep 30 21:38 maven-metadata.xml.sha1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 79780 Sep 30 21:38 wapicom-2.1.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32 Sep 30 21:38 wapicom-2.1.jar.md5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40 Sep 30 21:38 wapicom-2.1.jar.sha1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4526 Sep 30 21:38 wapicom-2.1.pom
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32 Sep 30 21:38 wapicom-2.1.pom.md5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40 Sep 30 21:38 wapicom-2.1.pom.sha1
[root@sjdevcon01 webex]#