 | | | stripping leading directories from tar file | stripping leading directories from tar file 2003-05-06 - By Eric Koldeweij
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I don't think that can be done with tar, at least not as far as I know.
However, there's an easy solution if all files inthe archive start with
"mnt/hdd"
ln -s / /mnt/hdd
You have to rmdir /mnt/hdd first if it already exists of course. This
makes a symbolic link from /mnt/hdd to /
cd to / and untar the archive. Works like a charm.
Eric.
Jon Miller wrote:
>I have a tarred file that has several directories before the filename:
>ex: mnt/hdd/etc/filename.tar.gz
>What I need to do is untar the file to:
>/etc/filename
>I'm assuming if I issue the following command it will yield the wrong results
>tar -xzvf filename.tar.gz /etc
>/etc/mnt/hdd/etc/filename
>Is there a way to strip off the /mnt/hdd?
>
>Thanks
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