Re: Tar: something like patch's -p

[Paul Jarc]

Akim Demaille <address@hidden> wrote:
> So I have to
>
>   tar jxvf autoconf-2.52e.tar.bz2
>   cp -r autoconf-2.52e/* ~/src/ace
>   rm -rf autoconf-2.52e
>
> while I'd like to
>
>   cd ~/src/ace
>   tar -p1 jxvf autoconf-2.52e.tar.bz2

As long as you unpack it on the same filesystem where you want it to
end up, you can use mv and rmdir instead of cp and rm.  You could also
do this:
ln -s . autoconf-2.52e
tar jxvf autoconf-2.52e.tar.bz2
rm autoconf-2.52e

But this won't work if the tarball contains a file called
"autoconf-2.52e/autoconf-2.52e".


paul