[NTLUG:Discuss] untar-ing without creating one level of directories

[Rick Cook]

On Monday 11 February 2008 22:26:06 Richard wrote:
> Wayne Walker wrote:
> > "normal usage":
> > 	tar xfz pmwiki-latest.tgz
> >
> > "strip a level"
> > 	tar xfz --strip 1 pmwiki-latest.tgz
> > <snip>
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 12:26:27PM -0600, Richard wrote:
> >> What is the term used to untar something without creating that first
> >> directory structure level?
> >> <snip>
>
> Well, my  (GNU tar) 1.15.1 doesn't have --strip.   hmm..

My manpage for tar (openSUSE 10.2, tar version 1.15.1) doesn't show 
the --strip option, however, tar --help does show it.


Rick