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Old 11-06-2007, 02:47 AM   #1
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Talking Tar Problems Some help please


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
 
Old 11-06-2007, 03:20 AM   #2
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Not sure it's what your after but..

On an individual file level, you could use -O:
Code:
tar -xvf /home/johnny/test2/test.tar /home/jonny/test1/test.txt -O > /home/jonny/test2/test.txt
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.
 
Old 11-06-2007, 03:25 AM   #3
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If I'm reading correctly, does --strip-components work?

http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manu...transform.html
 
Old 11-06-2007, 03:44 AM   #4
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Talking Strip works

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
 
Old 11-06-2007, 02:21 PM   #5
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If I'm reading correctly, does --strip-components work?

http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manu...transform.html
Interestingly it's not a documented option in Ubuntu.

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


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