tar command

[Leo The Cat]

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

[Steven E. Protter]

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

[Fat Scrape]

Hi,

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

Yes.

Regards,

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

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.

[Leo The Cat]

-C is the good way
Thanks to you.

Den

[Dennis Handly]

>-C is the good way

-C only works when creating the tarfile.