[tlug] Answered: Re: Solaris tar: how to pre-pend a parent directory?

[Jean-Christian Imbeault <jc.imbeault@example.com>]

Raymond, thanks for the reply.

The trick was the -h option as you suggested. With that I can go up
one directory, create a link to what I want to tar and be on my merry
way.

Thanks!

Jc

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Jean,
>
>
> On 23/02/11 17:17, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote:
>> I'd like to create a tar file in such a way that when untarred the
>> contents are all in a parent directory. This can be done at the
>> extraction step but I'm wondering if there is a way to do it at the
>> tar file creation step?
>>
>> Current state:
>> $ ls
>> a b
>> $ tar -cf  tarball.tar a b {insert UNIX magic here}
>> $ tar -xf tarball.tar
>> $ ls
>> a b parent
>> $ ls parent
>> a b
>
>
> How about if you tar from one directory above?  Would that work?
>
>
>> I couldn't find any tar options under SunOS to prepend parent
>> directory and I've also tried a few things with symbolic links but tar
>> just copied the links and not the files they point to.
>
>
> Under Debian Linux (sorry, I don't have a SunOS system to
> access), the -h or --dereference option will copy the files
> instead of the links.  Perhaps your tar version will have
> something similar?
>
> And no, I also have not heard of an option to prepend a
> directory...
>
> Ray
>
>
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