Re: stripping leading directories from tar file

I don't think that can be done with tar, at least not as far as I know.
However,  there's an easy solution if all files inthe archive start with 
"mnt/hdd"

ln -s / /mnt/hdd

You have to rmdir /mnt/hdd first if it already exists of course. This 
makes a symbolic link from /mnt/hdd to /

cd to / and untar the archive. Works like a charm.

Eric.

Jon Miller wrote:

>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
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