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11-06-2007, 02:47 AM
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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Canada
Distribution: Mandriva2005/Fedora4/Redhat 9 / mandrake 8/win2000 /win xp / Beos /
Posts: 39
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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
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11-06-2007, 03:20 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Aug 2004
Location: England
Distribution: Ubuntu
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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.
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11-06-2007, 03:25 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Sydney, Australia
Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, OpenSuse, Slack, Gentoo, Debian, Arch, PCBSD
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If I'm reading correctly, does --strip-components work?
http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manu...transform.html
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11-06-2007, 03:44 AM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Canada
Distribution: Mandriva2005/Fedora4/Redhat 9 / mandrake 8/win2000 /win xp / Beos /
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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
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11-06-2007, 02:21 PM
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Registered: Aug 2004
Location: England
Distribution: Ubuntu
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Quote:
Originally Posted by billymayday
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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
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