[ug-atlosug] Removing leading slashes from directories in a tar file

[Matty]

Hi Keith,

You can use the pax utilities "-s" option to do this:

$ pax -rvf archive.tar -s,/some/absolute/directory/,,

There are several pax examples similar to this in the Solaris FAQ.

Thanks,
- Ryan
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On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Keith Fleming wrote:

> We have a network node that tars and gzips its hourly data using
> absolute pathnames. The data is untarred/unzipped on a Solaris 8 box. We
> don't have root permission to do the "chroot . tar -xvf" solution. Also,
> installing gnu-tar (plus all of its dependencies) is also out of the
> question. Is there a way to untar the tar file in a directory other than
> the local directory? Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
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