Tar into different path

dvong3 · 11-07-2003, 08:52 AM

I achieve (tar cvf) my /export/home but I like to extract the file into a different directory. I try several commands but it doesn't work, I like to tar xvf into /test directory. Am I missing some commands?

dvong

# tar cvf dannyhome.tar /export/home/danny
a /export/home/danny/ 0K
a /export/home/danny/.dt/ 0K
a /export/home/danny/.dt/sessions/ 0K
a /export/home/danny/.dt/sessions/lastsession 1K

# tar xvf dannyhome.tar /test

FirebirdV0273 · 11-07-2003, 09:08 AM

go to the /test directory and use the command from there.

#cd /test
#tar xvf /export/home/danny/dannyhome.tar

dvong3 · 11-07-2003, 09:12 AM

Nope doesn't work ....

# cd /test
# ls
dannyhome.tar lost+found
# ls -al
total 308164
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 512 Nov 7 05:26 .
drwxr-xr-x 32 root root 1024 Nov 7 05:52 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 157677056 Nov 7 06:21 dannyhome.tar
drwx------ 2 root root 8192 Nov 7 05:23 lost+found
# tar xvf /export/home/danny/dannyhome.tar
tar: /export/home/danny/dannyhome.tar: No such file or directory

stickman · 11-07-2003, 09:28 AM

Try using relative paths instead of absolute ones. Do something like:
cd /export/home/danny
tar cvf dannyhome.tar ./*
cd /test
tar xvf /export/home/danny/dannyhome.tar

dvong3 · 11-11-2003, 03:38 AM

It works...thanks.

dvong