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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash Tarring not un Tarring correctly Post 302335587 by kshji on Monday 20th of July 2009 04:16:02 AM
Old 07-20-2009
Nothing todo with shell, only your version of tar is important.

Solaris tar man

In some tar you can use A option for this:
tar -xvAf xxx.tar will restore using THIS directory with relative paths even tar has done using absoluth paths.
I looked one Solaris (5.10) man tar, I didn't find any options for this ...

My opinion has been always - make tar using relative paths. Easier to handle restore.

Solution: move tar file to some Linux box and use -C option or install gnutar for your SunOS and use -C option.

---------- Post updated at 11:16 AM ---------- Previous update was at 11:16 AM ----------

Nothing todo with shell, only your version of tar is important.

Solaris tar man

In some tar you can use A option for this:
tar -xvAf xxx.tar will restore using THIS directory with relative paths even tar has done using absoluth paths.
I looked one Solaris (5.10) man tar, I didn't find any options for this ...

My opinion has been always - make tar using relative paths. Easier to handle restore.

Solution: move tar file to some Linux box and use -C option or install gnutar for your SunOS and use -C option.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

cpan::perl::releases

CPAN::Perl::Releases(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				 CPAN::Perl::Releases(3pm)

NAME

       CPAN::Perl::Releases - Mapping Perl releases on CPAN to the location of the tarballs

VERSION

       version 0.60

SYNOPSIS

	 use CPAN::Perl::Releases qw[perl_tarballs];

	 my $perl = '5.14.0';

	 my $hashref = perl_tarballs( $perl );

	 print "Location: ", $_, "
" for values %{ $hashref };

DESCRIPTION

       CPAN::Perl::Releases is a module that contains the mappings of all "perl" releases that have been uploaded to CPAN to the "authors/id/"
       path that the tarballs reside in.

       This is static data, but newer versions of this module will be made available as new releases of "perl" are uploaded to CPAN.

FUNCTIONS

       "perl_tarballs"
	   Takes one parameter, a "perl" version to search for. Returns an hashref on success or "undef" otherwise.

	   The returned hashref will have a key/value for each type of tarball. A key of "tar.gz" indicates the location of a gzipped tar file and
	   "tar.bz2" of a bzip2'd tar file. The values will be the relative path under "authors/id/" on CPAN where the indicated tarball will be
	   located.

	     perl_tarballs( '5.14.0' );

	     Returns a hashref like:

	     {
	       "tar.bz2" => "J/JE/JESSE/perl-5.14.0.tar.bz2",
	       "tar.gz" => "J/JE/JESSE/perl-5.14.0.tar.gz"
	     }

	   Not all "perl" releases had "tar.bz2", but only a "tar.gz".

SEE ALSO

       <http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/>

       <http://search.cpan.org/faq.html#Is_there_a_API?>

AUTHOR

       Chris Williams <chris@bingosnet.co.uk>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Chris Williams.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

perl v5.14.2							    2012-06-20						 CPAN::Perl::Releases(3pm)
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