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From: todd@cfa250.harvard.edu (Todd Karakashian)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: extracting tar files with absolute pathnames relatively
Keywords: tar pathname
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Date: 20 Apr 89 22:04:55 GMT
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Organization: Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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Hi,

I am in posession of tapes containing tarfiles with absolute
pathnames.  What I would like to do is to extract these files into a
different tree structure than they were tarred from.  Thus, the
tarfile /usr/foo/file should go into the disk pathname /temp/file.  I
have been unable to find a way to do this -- does anyone know how?

I am running SunOS 3.5.  I apologize if this is too simple a question.
It seems like a simple enough concept, but I haven't been able to figure
out how to do it.

Thanks in advance!

			Todd Karakashian
	
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