topic Re: untar in Operating System - HP-UX

untar

Michael_33 — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:20:48 GMT

i have a tar ball, now i want to untar to a
new directory, i.e all files will be extract into /123, how to do it?

high score

Re: untar

Michael_33 — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:26:35 GMT

i knew the answer, close.

Re: untar

T G Manikandan — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:27:57 GMT

Hi Michael,

check this doc

http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000062683984

Re: untar

Joseph Loo — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:28:52 GMT

hi,

copy the tar ball, e.g. abc.tar, to /123

# cd /123
# tar xvf abc.tar
to explode the tar file to that directory

regards.

Re: untar

Naveej.K.A — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:30:02 GMT

How did you back this up??

What does tar tvf /dev/rmt/0m shows??

(only first 2 or 3 lines required)

Anyway try this,

cd 123
pax -rv -s'/^\///' < /dev/rmt/0m

Regards,
naveej

Re: untar

C. Beerse_1 — Mon, 02 May 2005 02:14:50 GMT

If the tar ball has relative paths used, just step into the new directory and untar. If needed move the files from subdirectories to their target place.

If the tar ball has absolute paths used, use gnu-tar (for example from the porting archive: http://hpux.its.tudelft.nl/hppd/hpux/Gnu/tar-1.15/) That can change absolute paths on extraction.

If you need to stick to what you have, you can setup a tiny `chroot` jail and extract to that: `mkdir /path/to/target`, copy needed binaries and the tar-file in there and `chroot` into there to untar.