How to extract a tar file and change its path

[youhaodeyi]

I have a tar file(test.tar) which content is:

src/com/package/test.h

when I extract this file by 'tar -xvf test.tar', it will create the directory 'src/com/package' in the current directory. I want to remove the directory 'src/com' which means after extract the tar, only 'com/package/test.h' is extracted. How can I do this?

[slashslash]

You could copy the com directory to the destination you want it and then remove the src directory.

[leigh123linux]

file-roller will do it .

file-roller

[giulix]

See also the --strip-path NUMBER/--strip-components NUMBER (1) options to tar.

(1) tar-1.14 uses --strip-path, tar-1.14.90+ uses --strip-components