Huh. I tried -C, and it didn't seem to work! Or at least, not the way I expected?
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Sean Cody sean@tinfoilhat.ca wrote:
Try tar xvf file.tar -C /tmp/someotherroot/
On 2011-08-19, at 7:19 PM, Kevin McGregor wrote:
I have a TAR file (well, many) created with Solaris 10. I can restore it
under same, but it seems the Solaris version of tar doesn't give you the option of stripping the leading "/" when restoring, which is a slight problem for my situation.
Did I miss something, and it can restore to a relative path after all? Does anyone have any other suggestions, such as other utilities to use or
even OSs with a more flexible tar that can mount a UFS slice?
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