[Techtalk] tar question
Kathryn Hogg
kjh at flyballdogs.com
Sat Feb 24 02:10:57 UTC 2007
Maria McKinley wrote:
> Is it possible to give the directory you are tarring a new name in your
> tar file, or do you have to change the name of the directory and then
> tar it for this to work?
If you are using gnu tar and the directory that you want to change is the
first one in tar file, the --strip-components $number option might be
useful
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Kathryn
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