Frequent Shell Tasks Done Right

Jul 13, 2019
Apr 22, 2020

tar use-case

Extract packages directly to /.local/bin and stop polluting $PATH environment variable everytime you install something new

Installing go

tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.12.7.linux-amd64.tar.gz

Installing node + npm


tar \
    --interactive \
    --verbose
    --extract \
    --directory=/home/avi/.local/ \
    --strip-components=1 \
    --file=node-v10.16.0-linux-x64.tar.xz
    --list

print output, avoid this if you like quiet mode
extract tar.xz archive bundle
cd to this directory before extracting archive file
Avoid creating top-level directory with the same name as archive ball
location of file to extract

Footnotes

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