From: Mats Rynge (mats@AIXPDSLIB.SEAS.UCLA.EDU)
Date: Thu Aug 22 2002 - 11:33:33 EDT
* Mark Monroe <mark.monroe@FORMSANDSUPPLY.COM> [2002-08-22 10:26:53 -0400]:
> I need to tar restore these files onto my system -- but -- I need to restore
> the files to a different path. I am having problems finding some doc that
> gives me the proper statement to do this.
GNU tar strips the leading / for you. According to the man page, you
actually have to give it a flag to _keep_ the /:
-P, --absolute-paths
don't strip leading `/'s from file names
-- Mats Rynge Aixpdslib -- http://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu
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