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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers why does tar sometimes include directory information? Post 302217381 by JamesByars on Tuesday 22nd of July 2008 04:25:19 PM
Old 07-22-2008
yes, but say I want to tar up

a/b/c/d/file1
x/y/z/file2


then if directory information is stored I will have

a/
a/b/
a/b/c/
a/b/c/d/
a/b/c/d/file1
x/
x/y/
x/y/z/
z/y/z/file2

Also, if I want to untar this and I already have these directories created on my system, then these new directory information will overwrite my directory information?

thanks
 

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XZDIFF(1)							     XZ Utils								 XZDIFF(1)

NAME
xzcmp, xzdiff, lzcmp, lzdiff - compare compressed files SYNOPSIS
xzcmp [cmp_options] file1 [file2] xzdiff [diff_options] file1 [file2] lzcmp [cmp_options] file1 [file2] lzdiff [diff_options] file1 [file2] DESCRIPTION
xzcmp and xdiff invoke cmp(1) or diff(1) on files compressed with xz(1), lzma(1), gzip(1), or bzip2(1). All options specified are passed directly to cmp or diff. If only one file is specified, then the files compared are file1 (which must have a suffix of a supported com- pression format) and file1 from which the compression format suffix has been stripped. If two files are specified, then they are uncom- pressed if necessary and fed to cmp(1) or diff(1). The exit status from cmp or diff is preserved. The names lzcmp and lzdiff are provided for backward compatibility with LZMA Utils. SEE ALSO
cmp(1), diff(1), xz(1), gzip(1), bzip2(1), zdiff(1) BUGS
Messages from the cmp(1) or diff(1) programs refer to temporary filenames instead of those specified. Tukaani 2009-07-05 XZDIFF(1)
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