One of the most common programs on Linux systems for packaging files is the venerable tar. tar is short for tape archive, and originally, it would archive your files to a tape device. Now, you're more ...

using tar to extract files off tape, but they get extracted into their archived directory structure. how do i extract them so that all files are extracted into the local drive without being put ...

I have tried this both from the Archiver program in KDE and from the CL using #tar xzvf blahblah.tar.gzWhen I got the the directory it creates, the folder and everything under it has changed user ...