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A.G.M. Velthof
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‎04-07-2005 01:34 AM

‎04-07-2005 01:34 AM

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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
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Pete Randall
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‎04-07-2005 01:37 AM

‎04-07-2005 01:37 AM

Re: tar

man pax


Pete

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Peter Godron
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‎04-07-2005 01:42 AM

‎04-07-2005 01:42 AM

Re: tar

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
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