Archives and Compression

Extract Target

Add a Destination

Extraction commands often need both an archive name and a destination directory. Keeping those values separate makes scripts easier to review.

Program

Play the script to choose the destination directory used in the extract command.

extract_target.sh 
#!/usr/bin/env bash

target_dir=
archive="site.tar.gz"
mode="extract"
command="tar -xzf $archive -C $target_dir"
echo "$mode:$command"

#!/usr/bin/env bash

target_dir=
archive="site.tar.gz"
mode="extract"
command="tar -xzf $archive -C $target_dir"
echo "$mode:$command"

#!/usr/bin/env bash

target_dir=
archive="site.tar.gz"
mode="extract"
command="tar -xzf $archive -C $target_dir"
echo "$mode:$command"
extract `tar -xzf` is the common gzip-compressed tar extraction shape.
destination `-C target` tells tar where to extract files.
separate values Storing archive and target separately makes the final command easier to inspect.