Re: tar suggestions

[David Haigh]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > From: "David Haigh" <address@hidden>
> > Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 11:27:06 -0700
> >
> > I'd like to see an option to allow the extraction of the absolute
> > path in a tar file. I like that GNU tar defaults to extracting a
> > relative path, however there are times I would really like the
> > ability to extract the full path.
> 
> You mean, like "tar -P" does?

Does it?

     p         Restore the named files to their  original  modes,
               and  ACLs  if  applicable,  ignoring  the  present
               umask(1). This is the default behavior if  invoked
               as  super-user  with  the x function letter speci-
               fied. If super-user, SETUID and sticky information
               are  also  extracted,  and files are restored with
               their original owners and permissions, rather than
               owned by root. When this function modifier is used
               with the c function, ACLs are created in the  tar-
               file  along  with  other  information. Errors will
               occur when a tarfile with  ACLs  is  extracted  by
               previous versions of tar .

     P         Suppress the addition of a trailing "/" on  direc-
               tory entries in the archive.

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