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Re: Gnu Tar: Extracting files into a single directory
From: |
Dubious Dude |
Subject: |
Re: Gnu Tar: Extracting files into a single directory |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:24:10 -0400 |
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Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) |
Sven Mascheck wrote:
> Dubious wrote:
>
>> tar.gz archive. I want to extract them all into a single directory,
>> regardless of their path in the archive.
>
> $ zcat archive.tar.gz | pax
> ./
> ./dir/
> ./dir/subdir/
> ./dir/subdir/b
> ./dir/subdir/a
> ./dir/a
>
> $ zcat archive.tar.gz | pax -r -s ',.*/,,p'
> ./ >>
> ./dir/ >>
> ./dir/subdir/ >>
> ./dir/subdir/b >> b
> ./dir/subdir/a >> a
> ./dir/a >> a
>
> $ ls
> a b
Thank you, Sven. I'll keep that in mind for when
pax is available. I know from the cygwin mailing
list that this is possible, even through it doesn't
come with cygwin itself.