removing directory structure from a TAR file

[Murray Stokely]

Is there any way to make a tar file just decompress into the
current directory, without any kind of directory structure at all?
I've searched all through the man pages and couldn't find anything..

Murray Stokely ( mur...@southeast.net )
http://www.cdrom.com/pub/artpacks

[Mark Taylor]

I don't think there is.
If I wanted to do this I would probably untar into somewhere safe
(i.e. a place without existing subdirectories) and then run something
like

find . -type f -exec cp -pf '{}' . \;

or replace the second '.' with the name of the directory you wanted
to put them in if it wasn't the same one (in which case you could
discard the '-f').

I haven't checked the find command so there *may* be a mistake in
it. Disclaim.

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