hansell@cis.ohio-state.edu (Timothy Hansell) (04/13/90)
Does anyone out there know of a utility or a method that allows tarred files to be restored to other than the file name they were created with. The problem I have is this. I have a tar tape that was created with ABSOLUTE PATHNAMES. When I go to untar it it wants to put the files EXACTLY WHERE THEY CAME FROM ( instead of relative to my current working directory ). I know I could just untar them where they want to go and them copy them to where I want them, but that is complicated. They want to go in /usr, and I do not have super-user privs, so I must co-ordinate with the system manager on this one. I know that it would be possible to write a program to read the tar file and allow the user to put the files anywhere he wants, and I cannot believe that no-one has solve this before. Please enlighten me ! -tim
ti@altos86.Altos.COM (Ti Kan) (07/04/90)
In article <3614@zorba.Tynan.COM> twc@sun.com (Tim Curry) writes: >use the chroot command to temporarily change the absolute path. On UNIX System V rel 4.0, tar supports an 'A' option which lets you specify a prefix to pre-pend to the path of each file to be extracted. This can be used to get around the problem of absolute path names. SOme other implementations of tar may offer a similar feature. -Ti -- Ti Kan \\\ vorsprung durch technik! \\\ Internet: ti@altos.com /// \\\ UUCP: ...!{sun|sco|pyramid|amdahl|uunet}!altos!ti ////////\