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Elementary TAR Question
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O, great WordPress and UNIX Gurus, perhaps you can help where many, many online MAN pages have failed me. I’m quite practiced at installing WordPress from scratch with the command:
tar -xvzf wordpress.x.x.x.tar.gz
Which unpacks everything nice and neat into a new subdirectory called ‘wordpress.’
Now. Can’t I use a variation on the same command to unpack a WordPress version upgrade over an existing one? My problem is, my WordPress install directories have different names. If I have an existing WordPress install in:
public_html/user/blogs/bobsblog
How do I unpack a WordPress upgrade over the WordPress files in ‘bobsblog’? What’s the UNIX command? I know this is elementary, but I just can’t figure it out!
Thanks plenty!
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Change a directory = cd
List files = ll (long list) // ls (short list)
Show hidden files = ls -a
Show files with Ksize = l -h
vi or vim = enter in vi or vim mode
Create a file = touch (touch file.txt)
Make a directory = mkdir directoryname
Root directory = /
Copy a file = cp
Move a file = mv
Remove a file = rm
Remove a directory = rm -r
Clear screen = clear
Tar a file = tar -cvf file.tar directory/
UnTar a file = tar -xvf file.tar
Zip a tar = gunzip
UnZip a tar = gzip
Find = grep -l something somewhere
Open a file = open filename
Auto complete = tab
Easy Read and write = chmod a+w filenameBut what’s the command to UnTar a file into a specific directory? That is, I’m guessing that within wordpress-x.x.x.tar.gz, the directory name ‘wordpress’ is specified as the default. But I want what’s in ‘wordpress’ to go into ‘bobsblog’ instead. Isn’t there a way to do this?
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
Don’t think you’re going to get there with tar. Remember that the program lone-tar had a zWHERE flag to specify what directory the ‘restore’ was placed but it would still end up with the wordpress subdirectory under the zWHERE specification.
Guess you could extract files, rename the folder wordpress to bobsblog, then create your own tar file.
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