Question

I have the following problem:
I have directorties a/b/c and inside c many text files.
I want to make a .tar.gz file in drectory a/mydir with the c directory inside and then unzip it to that same directory to create a/mydir/c (with all the files inside)

I am at directory a and run: (shell)

~:$ tar -czf mydir/output.tar.gz b/c

~:$ tar -zxf mydir/output.tar.gz -c mydir

but the result is directories a/mydir/b/c (with the files inside)
The problem is I don’t want directory b in the middle, just c with all its contents

Answer 1

This works for me. Create data

mkdir -p a/b/c
echo 42 >  a/b/c/file.dat

Archive

tar zc -f c.tar.gz  -C a/b c