On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 06:29:16AM -0500, David Douthitt scribbled:
> My understanding is that tar takes your pathname as specified when you
> pack. For example,
>
> tar cvf file.tar .
> ...creates files with names like "./myfile1" "./myfile2" etc.
>
> tar cvf file.tar *
> ...creates files with names like "myfile1" "myfile2" etc.
>
> tar cvf file /pub/home/mydir
> ...creates files with names like "/pub/home/mydir/myfile1"
> "/pub/home/mydir/myfile2"
My experience has shown otherwise; whenever I create a LRP package,
I do this:
tar cvzf package.lrp package/*
and it creates package.lrp with everything in package/, but with no
leading "package/".
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