Re: tar and directory information

["Thomas O'Dowd" <tom@example.com>]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:30:06PM +0900, Christopher SEKIYA wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:03:45PM +0900, Hector Akamine wrote:
> 
> > tar -zcvf data.tgz /home/work/data
> 
> "Doctor, it hurts when I do this!"
> 
> "Well, then, don't do that."
> 
> (cd /home/work/data; tar czvf /data.tgz .)

If you are stuck needing something from the old archive you might
just check the archive with tar tzvf data.tgz to see if you preserved
the root / (at the beginning) (default doesn't preserve it). If not
then you can for example untar somewhere else... example...

mkdir -p /tmp/home/work/data
(cd /tmp ; tar xzvf data.tgz)

and all your data should be in /tmp/home/work/data.

Better not to save your archives that way though, if you don't want to
restore that way, like Chris said.

Tom.
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