[LUNI] Question about TAR...

[Joe Frost]

--- gs-list <gs-list at glsrms.com> wrote:
> While traversing the irc.openprojects.net IRC server, I came across
> an 
> interesting question of another user, and after spending a good
> twenty 
> minutes on trying to figure it out, I can't seem to.  Hopefully
> somebody 
> here has an answer that does NOT include the RM and MV commands:
> 
> Here's how the original question was posed:
> 
> lets say in snafu.tar i have /mnt/foo/blah, i want to extract 
> /mnt/foo/blah/* to /blah, cwd is /blah how do i do that?
> 
> The way that I interpret this, explained in more detail:
> 
> snafu.tar contains files which were in the directory path
> /mnt/foo/blah, 
> and the filenames are:
> /mnt/foo/blah/bar1
> /mnt/foo/blah/bar2
> /mnt/foo/blah/bar3
> /mnt/foo/blah/bar4
> /mnt/foo/blah/bar5
> 
> and I want to extract bar1 thru bar5 into /blah instead of making it
> come 
> out as  /blah/mnt/foo/blah/*
> 
> Make sense?  Need more clarification?  HELP!
> 

You can't do that with tar.  Absolute paths are
absolute paths.  Take a look into pax.

pax -r -s ,/mnt/foo/blah,/blah, -f snafu.tar


or something like that.  Read the man page and play

Joe


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