Read and respond to this message at: https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=7428576 By: keithmarshall
If I understand you correctly, you have an archive file in some directory, (you called it "dir_2"), and you want to extract it into another directory, (which you called "dir_3")? Right. tar will, by default, extract into your current working directory, reinstating the hierarchy specified within the archive itself, relative to current directory as prefix. Thus, provided you didn't make the grave error of creating the archive with absolute path names: $ cd d:\path\to\dir_3 $ tar xvf d:\path\to\dir_2\archive.tar should achieve what you want. (If you *did* create the archive, specifying *absolute* path names for the archived files, then I fear tar will always extract back to the same absolute paths; the moral is: *never* specify absolute path names for the files you add to a tar archive, *always* use a relative path). In an earlier post, you said you did: $ cd dir_2 $ tar xvf archive.tar -C dir_3 (exploiting the GNU tar -C extension feature), and it didn't work. I've never seen that fail, (but then, I use the MSYS implementation of GNU tar, rather than GnuWin32's). When you invoked that command, did your "dir_3" already exist as a subdirectory of "dir_2"? (Hint: tar will try to cd to the directory specified with -C; if it doesn't exist, that must fail; tar will not call mkdir for you). ______________________________________________________________________ You are receiving this email because you elected to monitor this forum. To stop monitoring this forum, login to SourceForge.net and visit: https://sourceforge.net/forum/unmonitor.php?forum_id=74807 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ GnuWin32-Users mailing list GnuWin32-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnuwin32-users
