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

[Rick Cook]

On Monday 11 February 2008 22:40:02 Wayne Walker wrote:
> My bad, it's --strip-path or --strip-components  according to the
> version of tar you have.

My bad too. Mine is --strip-components.

>
> 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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