In OPENSUSE 11.4, Ark can extract all the contents in tree structure?

freerjw · January 11, 2012, 12:35am

Hi,
I download a tar.gz file. I try extract the content and burn it to a DVD ROM. I am new to command line input. Ark in KDE 4 can show the content in tar.gz, but it only extract the root files and folders, not the sub folder below. Ark cannot do that?

Thanks.

jdmcdaniel3 · January 11, 2012, 3:01am

How to open or Untar a “tar.gz” file in Linux or Unix Terminal session (Alt-F2: Type in Konsole & press <enter> in KDE):

The following tutorial assumes the name of your file is yourfile.tar.gz Replace with your actual filename.

From the terminal, change to the directory where yourfile.tar.gz has been downloaded.
Type tar -zxvf yourfile.tar.gz to extract the file to the current directory.

You can specify a different directory to extract to using -C parameter and a path to the directory as follows:

Example: tar -C /myfolder -zxvf yourfile.tar.gz

Here are some links on using ark: ark(1): KDE archiving tool - Linux man page and ark (1) - Linux Man Page

Thank You,

martin_helm · January 11, 2012, 3:22am

Am 11.01.2012 00:36, schrieb freerjw:
>
> Hi,
> I download a tar.gz file. I try extract the content and burn it to a
> DVD ROM. I am new to command line input. Ark in KDE 4 can show the
> content in tar.gz, but it only extract the root files and folders, not
> the sub folder below. Ark cannot do that?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
I have no problems extracting folders with subfolders with ark from an
archive so I wonder if you can describe more detailed how you use ark so
that this happens.

eng-int · January 11, 2012, 4:02am

Yes it can, that is the default behaviour. Also, instead of opening the tar.gz, if youright-click on it in File Manager/Dolphin you can select one of the* Extract Archive* options.