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

[Richard]

Rick Cook wrote:
> 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.
>   
Who'd have THUNK that the man page wasn't all inclusive!  How the heck 
does that happen?

Ok... well --strip-components=   is my new best friend.  Sorry Wayne and 
Cook.  :)

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Richard