Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> 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 -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
