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extract a tar file to another directory

happy10319Jun 29 2016 — edited Jun 30 2016

Hi,

on AIX


I try to extract a tar file to another directory like this :


tar -xvf backup_26062016_090000.tar -C /u01/appli

and I have the following error :

File -C not present in the archive.
File /u01/appli not present in the archive

Thank for help.

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