As a side note: > But it's useless to me. I don't want to use absolute pathes. I really > need to have relative pathes. > I cannot extract this level 1 archive into /Users/john as I did with > the level 0 archive.
Yes, you can. Use the --transform option, e.g.: tar -x -f archive_1 --transform 's^/Users/me/^./^' Regards, Sergey
