Commands to Decompress TGZ archive

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Commands to Decompress TGZ archive

Extract to current directory:
tar -xvzf "!"
Extract with Prompt for target directory:
tar -xvzf  "!?&Extract to which directory:?.!" "!"
The prompt is set to default to the current directory, but I'm not sure the syntax is correct because it's not working when I specify a "." for the current directory. Maybe I'm missing something?

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Re: Commands to Decompress TGZ archive

There should be some switch before the destination path, should not? Like:
tar -xvzf --directory="!?&Extract to which directory:?.!" "!"

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Not working

I can't get this to work
I tried to tar|gzip an archive using the built in script:
tar -c -j -f "!?&Archive Name:?archive.tar.bzip2!" !&
The result was archive.tar.bzip2
I can open this with windows 7-zip fine.
Then I try the script mentioned above to untar|zip it using this:
tar -xvzf --directory="!?&Extract to which directory:?.!" "!"

I get the following error:
Command 'tar -xvzf --directory="." "archive.tar.bzip2"'
failed with return code 2 and error message
tar (child): --directory=.: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: archive.tar.bzip2: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

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