topic Re: tar command in Operating System - HP-UX

tar command

Leo The Cat — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:15:52 GMT

Hi

i've a tar with /path1/path2... stored in.
I would like to extract the tar in a /test directory to have /test/path1/path2 ...

If i do
cd /test
tar xvf /tmp/fic.tar the extraction go directly to /path1

How to do this ?

Regards
Den

Re: tar command

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:19:00 GMT

Shalom,

The man tar command shows the -C option. This might work.

Or change directory to the destination and tar xvf the tarfile from there.

SEP

Re: tar command

Fat Scrape — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:21:53 GMT

Hi,

If i do
cd /test
tar xvf /tmp/fic.tar the extraction go directly to /path1

Yes.

Regards,

Re: tar command

A. Clay Stephenson — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:25:08 GMT

To use tar to restore files backed up with absolute pathnames, you have to do a chroot first. Man 1m chroot for details.

There is a much better way: Don't use tar use pax. Pax has a -s option that allows you to substitutes pathnames that match one pattern with another and pax can read tar, cpio, and pax archives. Man pax for details.

In the future, avoid creating backups with absolute pathnames. Instead cd / then tar so that the archived files have relative pathnames. Restores to other locations are then much easier.

Re: tar command

Leo The Cat — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:28:37 GMT

-C is the good way
Thanks to you.

Den

Re: tar command

Dennis Handly — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:09:27 GMT

>-C is the good way

-C only works when creating the tarfile.