text: Q:
  
  how to ar x filename.a to different directory
  
  Is there any ar option to extract objects to a different directory ?
  Any way to extract them to tmp below ?
  [test]# ls -l
  total 1828
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1859628 Aug 24 02:10 libclsr11.a
  drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Aug 24 02:12 tmp
  [test]# ar x libclsr11.a
  [test]# ls -l
  total 3760
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  157304 Aug 24 02:13 clsrcact.o
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   19304 Aug 24 02:13 clsrcclu.o
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   55696 Aug 24 02:13 clsrccss.o
  ..
  drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Aug 24 02:12 tmp
  [test]#
  
  A:
  
  Unfortunately, ar does not seem to provide a way to specify the directory where the files shall be extracted. (At least I was unable to find one.) It always uses the current directory. However, there is a simple workaround: Change to the target directory before extraction and use the relative path to the archive instead:
  # cd ./tmp/
  # ar x ../libclsr11.a
  
  This way you should end up with clsrcact.o, clsrcclu.o and clsrccss.o inside the ./tmp/ directory.
  
  