MrC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha escrit: > However, upon extraction, symlinks a and b are not created correctly, and > become dead links:
When you run `tar vxf /tmp/test.tar' you get the following: test/ test/a test/b test/somedir/ test/somedir/a ../tar: Removing leading `../' from hard link targets --------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ If you wish to preserve relative paths to upper directories, use -P (--absolute-names) command line option: $ tar vvxfP /tmp/test.tar drwxr-xr-x gray/staff 0 2007-06-01 00:24 test/ -rw-r--r-- gray/staff 0 2007-06-01 00:24 test/a -rw-r--r-- gray/staff 0 2007-06-01 00:24 test/b drwxr-xr-x gray/staff 0 2007-06-01 00:24 test/somedir/ lrwxrwxrwx gray/staff 0 2007-06-01 00:24 test/somedir/a -> ../a lrwxrwxrwx gray/staff 0 2007-06-01 00:24 test/somedir/b -> ../b Regards, Sergey