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Hi.

I have some tar files that are 3gb or larger. A listing of their contents shows that they have files that do not need to be backedup. I created a folder named "untarhere" to extract the file contents into. My question/problem is: How do I create a tar archive without it saving the "untarhere" folder name.

Directory layout:

Code:

# cd /untarhere

# ls

2007_Jul_12  2007_Jul_13 2007_Jul_14

If I run

Code:

# tar vcf ./2007_Jul_12.tar.gz /untarhere/2007_Jul_12

and then

Code:

# tar tf ./2007_Jul_12.tar.gz

I get

Code:

/untarhere/2007_Jul_12/

/untarhere/2007_Jul_12/file1

/untarhere/2007_Jul_12/file2

/untarhere/2007_Jul_12/directory1

/untarhere/2007_Jul_12/directory2

...

The output I want to see is this:

Code:

/2007_Jul_12/

/2007_Jul_12/file1

/2007_Jul_12/file2

/2007_Jul_12/directory1

/2007_Jul_12/directory2

...

I do not want "/untarhere" to be saved in the tar file. How do I tell tar to do this?