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dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 1,007

simple tar question

When creating a tar in xarchiver, you can select the option: "do not add file paths".

Say you are tarring /mnt/storage/music/rock with such an option, when you extract it into your home folder, it will create a folder called 'rock' with its contents inside. If you don't select the option, the full path will be included and the a 'mnt' folder will be created in the home folder.

How do I enable this option on the command line? I can't seem to work it out from the man page.

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danielsoft

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2008-02-16

Posts: 102

Re: simple tar question

simply cd to "/mnt/storage/music" and tar the "rock" directory : is that sufficient?

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dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 1,007

Re: simple tar question

Hmm i just was hoping there was a different way to do that. It would make my script that i'm trying to write a lot simpler

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tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: simple tar question

Read man tar and/or tar --help. There are a lot of options e.g. danielsoft's suggestion can be handled in one entry with the -C flag.