extracting files

[Waqar Razi]

How can I extract files to a specific directory from the file " sudo-1.6.9p17.tar.tar "?

[Mel Burslan]

did you try copying this tar file into the directory and running tar -xvf command while sitting in that directory ?

[Mel Burslan]

forgot to say this in my previous posting, tar -xvf command is dependent on how the tar file was created. If the contents of the tar file starts with slash, i.e., saved from an absolute path, it will try to extract this tar file into the same absolute path, and I don't know if you can do anything to prevent this.

One thing that comes to mind is to unpack the tar archive on a PC or another different machine and import the files to a location you wish them to reside.

hope this helps

[Yashwant]

tar -xvf tar_filename

[Tim Nelson]

post the output of tar vtf sudo-1.6.9p17.tar.tar

If there is no leading "/" then it was created relatively. cd to the directory you want then untar. ( you will get all the subdirs, no way around that ).


BTW, I believe sudo is available from software.hp.com as a SD depot. Then there is no need to untar.

[Steven Schweda]

Note that there's seldom a good reason for a
file to be named "X.tar.tar", which leads
one to wonder how you got one (or if you're
reporting the real file name). In any case,
the first step would be one of those
"tar t [...]" commands, to try to see what
you have there.

[Torsten.]

I'm pretty sure the original name was

sudo-1.6.9p17.tar.gz

If you download such file with a browser on windows, the suggested name will turn

*.tar.gz

into

*.tar.tar

for any reason.

Try to rename it back to

sudo-1.6.9p17.tar.gz

and use "gunzip" to de-compress the file.

[Torsten.]

Did you get the file from here?

http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/dist/sudo-1.6.9p17.tar.gz

[Dennis Handly]

>Mel: it will try to extract this tar file into the same absolute path, and I don't know if you can do anything to prevent this.

You toss tar in the garbage and use pax(1) -s instead. (GNU tar will also work.)