Re: tar problem

From: Geoff Clare <geoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:57:19 +0100

enjoyfate wrote:

I have a tar file to extract .When I used " tar jxvf a.tar.bz2 "
command to extract , in current directory it makes mnt/c/....,
extarcted files all in that directory, but i do not want that
prefix ,so how to do that ?

bzcat a.tar.bz2 | pax -r -pp -s,mnt/c/,,

(pax is the standard POSIX utility for reading and writing tar and
cpio files).

If you are running as root and want to preserve ownership then use -pe
instead of -pp.

--
Geoff Clare <netnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
.

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- tar problem
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