i have a directory of tarballs (tar.bz2 to be exact) that i want to extract just the files from into a single dir and have it ignore the dir its tarred up as, so that when the tarball is extracted it ...

Tarballs are often used to back up personal or system files in place to create an archive, especially prior to making changes that might have to be reversed. Linux sysadmins, for example, will often ...

pax is one of the lesser known utilities in a typical Linux installation. That's too bad, because pax has a very good feature set, and its command-line options are easy to understand and remember. pax ...