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Re: [Bug-tar] Inquiry - incremental archives using the --directory optio
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Sergey Poznyakoff |
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Re: [Bug-tar] Inquiry - incremental archives using the --directory option not supported ? |
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Sun, 17 Oct 2010 23:37:55 +0300 |
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