How to tar/untar the output on the fly

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Mar 15, 202678470 views

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What is the idiomatic way to do the following tar to stdout read this tar output from stdout and extract to some other folder. My solution is But may be there is more idiomatic way to do it.

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tar --to-stdout .. | tar -C somefolder -xvf -

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The same option works for tarring as well. GNU tar uses stdio by default: rsync is also popular.

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