Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!hpsemc!bd From: bd@hpsemc.HP.COM (bob desinger) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: HELP problem with tar Message-ID: <570019@hpsemc.HP.COM> Date: 16 Aug 88 23:16:27 GMT References: <544@kaon.uchicago.edu> Organization: HP Technology Access Center, Cupertino, CA Lines: 18 Admin (root@kaon.uchicago.edu) writes, in a truncated posting: > paths instead of relative paths using tar. i.e. I save a directory > /u/harris/trash. How can I restore this directory and subtrees to let > us say, /u4/harris/tmp/trash. (If my e-mail and shar of readtape doesn't reach you, get readtape from my earlier article and then read this.) I hope you're running System V. 1. cd /u4/harris/tmp 2. (Unpack the readtape shar into the current directory.) 3. ./readtape # get a usage summary 4. su root -c "cd `pwd` && ./readtape" # run it; creates ./u/harris/ 5. mv u/harris/trash trash # you may have to use mvdir 6. rm -rf u # dispose of leftovers -- bd