Hi all,

I need to create a tar.gz directory in different location. I am using the following command.

tar -czvf file.tar.gz file

can any one please help me to create tar.gz in different directory.


Thanks

Hi Astrogeek,

Thanks for your reply.

I have tried with your command but when i am tar a directory with full path, its get compressed as full path.

when untar the same directory, its get extracted as full path location.


Ex:-


Source File location:-
*********************

/tmp/test/backup/


Backup Directory:-
*****************

/root/Desktop/backup.tar.gz


tar -czvf /root/Desktop/backup.tar.gz /tmp/test/backup



After that, when i am untar the same file its get extracted as /root/Desktop/backup/ directory.

But i need to extract as backup/ directory alone.


Issue is when i am creating tar with full path, its get compressed as full path .tar.gz file. I dont want to tar as full path.

Need to filter that full path when creating .tar.gz file.

Please help me on this...


Thanks,

Actually, no. The path to the backup location (destination) is not stored in the tar file at all.

But the path to the source files is stored in the tar file by default relative to where the tar command was issued from unless absolute path is given.

In your original question you did not say anything about what part of the path you want to preserve or where you want to untar it, so maybe you could be a little more complete in your problem description.

You might also want to see man tar, -C and -P options in particular.