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tar extracted archive removes version

I have a zipped archive version 0.0.1: myarch_0.0.1.tar.gz

When I extract it with tar, everything is unzipped and extracted in a myarch folder, stripping the version number.

ls
myarch_0.0.1.tar.gz

tar -zxvf myarch_0.0.1.tar.gz

ls
myarch/ myarch_0.0.1.tar.gz*

I want the extracted folder to be named: myarch_0.0.1/ How do I keep my version number stuck to the extracted folder name?

Solution

  • The name of an archive file, and the name of the files inside, have nothing to do with each other in general. If you want extracted directories to have a certain name, with a version number, then you have to create the archive with so named directories.

    In this example, the extracted content is a directory named myarch, instead of your desired myarch_0.0.1. You can rename the directory and recreate the archive:

    mv myarch myarch_0.0.1
tar zcf myarch_0.0.1.tar.gz myarch_0.0.1

    That's it. When you untar this new archive, you will get a directory named myarch_0.0.1, simply because that's what you put inside. Even if you rename this file to mickeymouse.tar.gz, when you untar it, you will still get a directory named myarch_0.0.1, simply because that's what's inside the archive. Nothing to do with the filename of the archive.