Re: Re[Help-tar] moving folders from a tar

[ERSEK Laszlo]

On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Jessie Grenfell wrote:

> I'm creating a tar file (with a VBA script, but that shouldn't matter). The
> command used to generate the file is below. The problem is, the tar file
> includes the full path of the files that were included in the file. I need
> to either create it or modify it afterwards so the resulting tar file
> includes just the files in the last folder (8314048612111209). I realize
> this is probably simple, but my attempts to add in the strip-components
> option have resulted in syntax errors. Can anyone help with the correct
> command for this?
>
> C:\Progra~1\GnuWin32\bin\bsdtar -cf
> L:\HRA-LIDS\BatchFiles\2009-11-12\8314048612111209.tar
> L:\HRA-LIDS\BatchFiles\2009-11-12\8314048612111209

chdir to L:\HRA-LIDS\BatchFiles\2009-11-12 first, then

tar -c -f 8314048612111209.tar 8314048612111209

With GNU tar, you may want to try the -C option as well.

lacos