RE: [PHP] using tar to untar a file into a certain dir... In php of course

Hello, I can't seem to get cd to work while using system???? I even use the whole root path. Anyone got any ideas? Thank you, -------------------------------------------- Brandon Orther WebIntellects Design/Development Manager brandon@webintellects.com 800-994-6364 www.webintellects.com -------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Javier Muniz [mailto:JavierM@corp.granicus.com] Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 2:48 PM To: 'DanO'; Brandon Orther; PHP User Group Subject: RE: [PHP] using tar to untar a file into a certain dir... In php of course Don't calls to system() live within their own shell and environment? If so you may need to: system("cd /destination/dir && tar -xpf /some/path/to/tarfile.tar"); this will also insure that if the cd fails for some reason, tar will not execute. -jm -----Original Message----- From: DanO [mailto:dano@informano.net] Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 2:34 PM To: Brandon Orther; PHP User Group Subject: RE: [PHP] using tar to untar a file into a certain dir... In php of course good point. i should think before i post. here is another go: <? chdir("destination"); system("tar -xpf /some/path/to/mytar.tar"); ?> i can't test this as i am on a windows box at the moment, but i think you can get the gist of it. change the working directory of php and then extract from another file. DanO -----Original Message----- From: Brandon Orther [mailto:brandon@webintellects.com] Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 2:16 PM To: PHP User Group Subject: FW: [PHP] using tar to untar a file into a certain dir... In php of course From: Brandon Orther [mailto:brandon@webintellects.com] Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 2:07 PM To: DanO Subject: RE: [PHP] using tar to untar a file into a certain dir... In php of course That just untars it into the current dir the php script is in. -----Original Message----- From: DanO [mailto:dano@informano.net] Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 1:58 PM To: PHP User Group Subject: RE: [PHP] using tar to untar a file into a certain dir... In php of course have you tried: mv mytar.tar /my/path/to/dir/; tar -xpf /my/path/to/dir/mytar.tar this should work, but there may be a more direct unix-y way to do it. DanO -----Original Message----- From: Brandon Orther [mailto:brandon@webintellects.com] Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 1:49 PM To: PHP User Group Subject: [PHP] using tar to untar a file into a certain dir... In php of course Hello, I am making a php file that untars files. What I can't seem to figure out is how to untar a file into another folder. I have tried: tar -xpf file.tar /new/folder/* & and & tar -xpf file.tar /new/folder/ does anyone know how to do this? Thank you, -------------------------------------------- Brandon Orther WebIntellects Design/Development Manager brandon@webintellects.com 800-994-6364 www.webintellects.com -------------------------------------------- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net