Just so I have this written down…
Every time I upgrade wordpress I have to figure out how to get the files out of the tarball and into the directory where my blog lives. They tar up the wordpress files with a top level directory of wordpress/ and my files live in blog/. There are any number of hacky ways to accomplish this, however I wanted to do it with tar.
Mark clued me.
tar -C blog --strip-components=1 -zxvf wordpress-2.3.1.tar.gz
