stripping leading directories from tar file
"Jon Miller" <[email protected]>
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I have a tarred file that has several directories before the filename: ex: mnt/hdd/etc/filename.tar.gz What I need to do is untar the file to: /etc/filename I'm assuming if I issue the following command it will yield the wrong results tar -xzvf filename.tar.gz /etc /etc/mnt/hdd/etc/filename Is there a way to strip off the /mnt/hdd? Thanks Jon L. Miller, MCNE, CNS Director/Sr Systems Consultant MMT Networks Pty Ltd http://www.mmtnetworks.com.au "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." -Bill Cosby