 | | | stripping leading directories from tar file | stripping leading directories from tar file 2003-05-06 - By Antonio Galea
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On Tue, 6 May 2003, 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?
>
I maybe missing a point here, but... the path problem affects what is _INSIDE_
the archive, not where the archive is stored on the filesistem.
Thus
tar -zxvf mnt/hdd/etc/filename.tar.gz -C /etc/filename
will untar it where you want it to be.
Ant9000
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