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From: ray3rd@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ray E Saddler III)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: extracting tar files with absolute pathnames relatively
Summary: Use a [symbolic if needed] link...
Keywords: tar pathname
Message-ID: <2620@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 21 Apr 89 17:26:26 GMT
References: <1501@cfa205.cfa250.harvard.edu>
Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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In article <1501@cfa205.cfa250.harvard.edu>, todd@cfa250.harvard.edu (Todd Karakashian) writes:
> 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've encountered the same scnerio and have used this trick:

Make a link (symbolic in my instance) in the /usr directory.  The
link name would be 'foo', and would simply point to /temp.

It works quite nicely.


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