untar

[Michael_33]

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

[Michael_33]

i knew the answer, close.

[T G Manikandan · Accepted solution]

Hi Michael,

check this doc

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

[Joseph Loo]

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.

[Naveej.K.A]

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

[C. Beerse_1]

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.