Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:44:57 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
> > How do I tell tar when I am making the tarball to look at /mnt/gentoo/
> > as it start point, root directory if you will? I read the man page but
> > suspect I am missing it somewhere. There has to be a way since it is
> > done that way for the stage 3 tarball.
>
> The same way you change directory when you extract, with -C.
Does gnu tar really did copy star behavior and now allows to use -C in extract
mode?
Well, star still combines the pattern matcher with -C and thus allows to
combine -C with pat= and thus to extract and sort controlled by patterns.
Jörg
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