A lot of people wrote telling me to using gnu tar and that is the route I took. After extracting the tarball, I then had d/e/f/a/b/c directories and had to mv the files to the appropriate directory and them rmdir the recursive directories. Thanks Everyone Ivan [Bills reply] Use GNU tar (gtar) to extract the tarball. By default it will strip absolute paths (leading /). So, you can go to some work area, gtar -x... to extract to here (.) and the move things wherever you want them. GNU tar is delivered in the SUNWgtar package. Mine (on Solaris 9) is: /usr/sfw/bin/gtar Original Post: Greetings I have a tar file which was created using tar xvf and it has the path names stored within the tar file. I need to restore the files to a different directory without overwriting the original directory and thus far have been unsuccessful. example - tarred using tar cvf /a/b/c/* test.tar now I need to untar in /d/e/f tried using tar xvf /a/b/c/test.tar /d/e/f/ but no luck - can anyone advise? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed May 18 12:05:34 2005
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