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From: jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: extracting tar files with absolute pathnames relatively
Message-ID: <9469@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 27 Apr 89 19:27:58 GMT
References: <1501@cfa205.cfa250.harvard.edu> <8273@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
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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.

I'm at a slight disadvantage, this site has not got the original message,
but:
	
	I take it you're running some version of tar which does not have
	the 'A' option? Stripping leading '/' from a restore is precisely
	what that option does.
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