topic Re: tar in Operating System - HP-UX

tar

A.G.M. Velthof — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 08:34:14 GMT

Is there a way to extract a tar file without
the leading /, to place the extracted files in another directory?
The tarfile is made with tar cvf tarfile /etc/passwd

Regards, Alfons

Re: tar

Pete Randall — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 08:37:15 GMT

man pax

Pete

Re: tar

Peter Godron — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 08:42:21 GMT

Alfons,
have a look at:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=850409
and
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=851777
for solutions.
Regards