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What does `tar -C` mean?

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In the section "Installing Portage", the Gentoo installation docs say: What does this command do?

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# tar xvjf /mnt/gentoo/portage-latest.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr

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Tar is used to handle archives (historically saved on tapes). The tells it to extract files from the archive stands for verbose for bzip2 archive indicates the file name finally: tells it to change directory (so the package content will be unpacked …

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