From: Bentley, Adam \( Dist \) (Adam.Bentley@eme.co.uk)
Date: Mon Mar 22 2004 - 12:21:15 EST
Does anyone know if there's a fix for the following issue :-
Unpacking a tar archive but wanting to restore to an alternative
location I use
tar sxvf sometarfile.tar
so leading '/'s are chopped off the files and they are restored below my
current location...
using this or its alternative form
tar xPvf "/" sometarfile.tar
seems to have the same effect on filename with '&' in them
eg...
myserver # tar tf /tmp/test.tar
/tmp/foo
/tmp/foo/cb_isolatedl&c_h_visax
/tmp/foo/cb_isolatedl&c_h_visax_no
/tmp/foo/cb_isolatedl&c_v_visax
/tmp/foo/cb_isolatedl&c_v_visax_no
myserver # pwd
/tmp/foo2
myserver # tar xvsf /tmp/test.tar
blocksize = 20
x tmp/foo
x tmp/foo/cb_isolatedl/c_h_visax, 243 bytes, 1 tape blocks
x tmp/foo/cb_isolatedl/c_h_visax_no, 352 bytes, 1 tape blocks
x tmp/foo/cb_isolatedl/c_v_visax, 239 bytes, 1 tape blocks
x tmp/foo/cb_isolatedl/c_v_visax_no, 348 bytes, 1 tape blocks
is there a fix or flag to resolve this? It works as expected when
unpacking without using 's' or 'P' options with tar
thanks all.
Adam Bentley
Unix Administrator
Powergen UK.
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