Hi all

I hate to ask this because i think i am going to kick myself

So here goes I am working on a backup script and would like to be able to
extract a file and files with out the folders

so lets say a tar was made of /home/johnny/test/work how can i extract
this tar and NOT get (/home/johnny/test/work) but just the files in work.

every time i extract a file I get the tree structure also and I dont want that I just want the file's

I made a test, made two folders called it /test1 and /test2

in test1 I made 3 files test.txt test1.txt test2.txt I then made a tar with

tar -cvf /home/johnny/test2/test.tar /home/johnny/test1/ because I want the tar saved in test2

then I extract it back to test1 with tar -C /home/johnny/test1 -xvf /home/johnny/test2/test.tar witch works fine but it also makes the hole
(/home/johnny/test1) witch I dont want.

If someone can figure this out I would appreciated it very much

On a different note to everybody that is involved with Linux making,building,compiling, artists Mr Linus Torvalds for the kernel
and all of you people answering my petty questions

THANK YOU I TRULY MEAN IT THANK YOU ALL !! Linux is totally Amazing, build by you and me, Amazing !!! Have a blast of a day

On an individual file level, you could use -O:
This extracts the file test.txt passes it to standard output which we are redirecting to /home/jonny/test2/test.txt

This would only work for regular text files.

If I'm reading correctly, does --strip-components work?

http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manu...transform.html

Thank you

billymayday and Disillusionist for your ansers it does look like

tar -xf usr.tar (--strip=2 )usr/include/stdlib.h works

just a though what if the tree has 5 folders down would it be strip=5
and so on seems logic

Thank you anyway it did help my script a long

JJV

Interestingly it's not a documented option in Ubuntu.

It works and it's listed in the output from
but the option is not shown in the man page (it is shown in the man page for tar in Centos