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From: ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: extracting tar-archive to directories
Keywords: TAR
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Date: 19 Jul 89 00:08:38 GMT
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In article <499@aftp.UUCP> arnesen@aftp.UUCP (Geir Arnesen) writes:
>Does anyone now if it is possible to extract tar files from tape - to
>another directory/file than it was archived as?

My version of pdtar has a -Pnn option that permits removing the first
nn parts of path names.

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