[ale] tar restore help

Fri Jun 25 09:43:02 EDT 1999

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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.

I usually do this by:
% cd <branch_to_tar>
% tar cvf <tar_filename> ./*
That works even at '/'. (Usually I would drive the 'tar' with a filelist,
perhaps built using 'find'.)

When you do:
% tar tf <tar_filename>
you should see your filenames starting with './' and you can now unpack them
most anywhere.

Try this for a sample:
% (cd / ; tar cvf - ./tmp ) | tar tf -

  John Mills, Sr. Software Engineer
  TGA Technologies, Inc.
  100 Pinnacle Way, Suite 140
  e-mail: jmills at tga.com
  Norcross, GA 30071-3633
  Phone: 770-421-2100 ext.124 (voice)
         770-449-7740 (FAX)

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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Bob's ALE Mail wrote:</FONT>
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> IMHO about the only thing GNU screwed up was tar. By default it strips the
 > leading slash when creating or extracting archives.

I usually do this by:
 % cd <branch_to_tar>
 % tar cvf <tar_filename> ./*
 That works even at '/'. (Usually I would drive the 'tar' with a filelist, perhaps built using 'find'.)

<P><FONT SIZE=2>When you do:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>% tar tf <tar_filename></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>you should see your filenames starting with './' and you can now unpack them most anywhere.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Try this for a sample:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>% (cd / ; tar cvf - ./tmp ) | tar tf -</FONT>
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John Mills, Sr. Software Engineer
 TGA Technologies, Inc.
 100 Pinnacle Way, Suite 140
 e-mail: jmills at tga.com
 Norcross, GA 30071-3633
 Phone: 770-421-2100 ext.124 (voice)
 770-449-7740 (FAX)

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