Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!sobeco!mfp From: mfp@sobeco.UUCP (Mark F. Proudman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: relative pathname question! Summary: Relative Pathnames and tar Message-ID: <323@sobeco.UUCP> Date: 11 Aug 88 14:09:29 GMT References: <1670003@hpcilzb.HP.COM> <5762@super.upenn.edu> <1968@stpstn.UUCP> <1988Aug10.165751.20311@utzoo.uucp> Organization: Sobeco Group - Montreal, Canada Lines: 12 In article <1988Aug10.165751.20311@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: > >As far as I can tell, there is NO way to extract tar files with > >absolute pathnames anywhere except their original positions. > > It has long seemed to me that tar x very badly needs a renaming facility, > to cope with this and other problems. I'm joining this discussion late, so maybe someone has already come up with this, but how about a "chroot newdir tar", prior to running tar? I don't know how this works on other systems, but it worked on a tower. Of course, I had to copy tar and mkdir to a bin directory relative to the new root. Of course, cpio -c is far superior...