Re: Tar: something like patch's -p

[Paul Jarc]

Akim Demaille <address@hidden> wrote:
> | 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 :)

Why not?  You're making more work for yourself.  You're the only one
who can solve that particular problem.

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

Even if it were done within tar, it would still be the same steps.  If
your only complaint is that you're typing all the steps each time you
use them, then just script it.


paul