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gnutar: -C is untrustworthy?

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Name: Blaise
Date: July 17, 2008 at 15:01:43 Pacific
Subject: gnutar: -C is untrustworthy?
OS: UNIX Sun Solaris
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Comment:

The UNIX man for "BUGS" section on gnutar command describes: "The -C feature does not work like historical gnutar programs, and is probably untrustworthy."
Im using the extension -C to un-tar my tar file at dir1 into the folder dir2 via the command below.

gnutar -xvf home/dir1/file.tar -C home/dir1/dir2
It seems to work fine for me but the MAN describtion of -C got me worried. Does it mean its not reliable to use -C? Any safer way to perform the same? Pls help - thanks.

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