Re: Tar: something like patch's -p

[Akim Demaille]

| 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.  

And I precisely don't :)  That's why I don't use mv.

| You could also
| do this:
| ln -s . autoconf-2.52e
| tar jxvf autoconf-2.52e.tar.bz2
| rm autoconf-2.52e

Still many steps, while I would simply want tar to expand at the
proper place :(

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