I have a tar (websites.tgz) that contain a bunch of Drupal websites that are tarred up starting with 'htdocs'I need to untar them into/local/htdocs/web1/local/htdocs/web2and so on.  But I cannot place the websites.tgz file in /local and extract downward due to permissions.  It is currently in my home directory.  How can I untar the contents under /local/htdocs, without including the top-level htdocs directory?I am trying to avoid having:/local/htdocs/htdocs/web1/local/htdocs/htdocs/web2.Thanks for any help.
Untar Without Top-Level Directory
command line;tar
You can use the -C option in some tar implementations to specify the base path for extraction. The following will work for your example.tar -xvz -C /local -f websites.tgzOr if your tar doesn't have the -z or -C options:gunzip < websites.tgz | (cd /local && tar xvf -)