"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I need to create a tarfile that will be untarred using
> tar's P option (absolute paths), but the absolute
> directory that I archiving is not the same as the
> absolute directory I want tar to extract into.
>
> For example, I want to archive /home/dir1/dir2, but
> have it extract into /home/dir2.
>
> I can't use relative paths because the users' already
> have the script that contains the tar extract command
> (tar xvzpPf...)
I am not sure what you like to do but you could use star's
s=replstr Apply ed like pattern substitution -s /old/new/gp on filenames
option to automatically modify the filenames.
Up to 100 patterns are supported.
BTW: tar has no -P option.
star implements -P to write partial last records (since 1986)
Sun tar implements -P to prevent adding a slash ("/") to directory names.
Maybe you were speaking about gtar?
J�rg
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