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

[Wayne Walker]

My bad, it's --strip-path or --strip-components  according to the
version of tar you have.

On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:26:06PM -0600, 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..
> 
> 
> http://linux.die.net/man/1/tar shows some --strip options.   Hm... I 
> wonder why Slack12 doesn't have strip.
> 
> -- 
> Richard
> 
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