[ale] tar restore help

[Wandered Inn]

Bob's ALE Mail wrote:

> IMHO about the only thing GNU screwed up was tar.  By default it strips the
> leading slash when creating or extracting archives.
> 

As I recall, the reason for that was so that if you archived something
from /, you could extract it elsewhere, with less pain.  If the files
come out as foo/bar/foobar it will drop the files foobar in  ./foo/bar/
whereas if it comes out as /foo/bar/foobar, it's going to try and place
it relative to root, regardless of what you want to do.

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