tar with directory path
 

Hi: how do I create a tar file with a directory path, so that when its extracted it'll create the directory path I specify and place the files in it?

Thanks

Not sure if you can create directories with tar.
I'd say either put the directory tree within the tar file, or do "mkdir -p /path/to/new/directory" and extract into the new directory tree.

tar --help
is pretty useful.

Somewhere in that it says...
-P, --absolute-names don't strip leading `/'s from file names

Don't forget if you exclude the directories when you create the tar ball, they won't be created when your extract the files.