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From: gsf@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Glenn Fowler[drew])
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: PAX problems with linked files
Summary: pax -s /old/new/
Keywords: pax tar cpio archive tape
Message-ID: <11337@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 20 Mar 89 04:05:31 GMT
References: <1989Mar17.174014.15444@tmsoft.uucp> <1122@frog.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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In article <1122@frog.UUCP>, john@frog.UUCP (John Woods) writes:
> In article <1989Mar17.174014.15444@tmsoft.uucp>, woods@tmsoft.uucp (Greg Woods) writes:
> > I would also like to see extraction always create under the current
> > directory, regardless of whether there is a leading slash on the ...
> UNOS' archive-reader program (installation) takes an argument to strip
> a leading string from filenames, which not only handles turning ...

no need to hack the semantics

the -s option allows ed(1) style substitutions on archive pathnames
	-s ',^/*,,'
makes all archive pathnames relative to . and
	-s ',.*/,,'
collapses all pathnames to ./<base> (any delimiter, `comma' here, is valid)
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Glenn Fowler    (201)-582-2195    AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
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