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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers tar xvf to a different directory? Post 302407199 by newbie_01 on Wednesday 24th of March 2010 08:12:03 PM
Old 03-24-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by dennis.jacob
Maybe you are looking for this?

Code:
tar cvf - cur_directory  | (cd newdirectory &&  tar xvf -)

Hi Dennis,

Unfortunately, am tarring xvf from a file

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Quote:
Originally Posted by methyl
I think you have justifiable cause to ask the third party to use relative paths when creating an archive with "tar".

jlliagre's idea of using "pax" is good. It has saved me much time before.

What Operating System and version are you using to read the "tar" archives. Do you have pax"?

As I am sure you know, "tar -tvf" will list the filenames on the archive enabling you to check whether you have a clash with your system. We don't know the structure of your filesystems in relation to the directory structure of the "tar" archive or whether this involves active files or programs.

Personally if I had to deal with unsolicited "tar" archives I would use an intermediate computer to inpect, expand (with "pax" to a controlled filesystem), check for viruses, perform basic data validation, and then transfer to the main computer for processing.

Hi metyhl,

Am on AIX, did a which and there is /usr/bin/pax

I'll check on the man pages and see how it works, never used it before. As per jlliagre's post, I can use pax to extract from tar files as well, is that correct?
 

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GIT-TAR-TREE(1) 						    Git Manual							   GIT-TAR-TREE(1)

NAME
git-tar-tree - Create a tar archive of the files in the named tree object SYNOPSIS
git tar-tree [--remote=<repo>] <tree-ish> [ <base> ] DESCRIPTION
THIS COMMAND IS DEPRECATED. Use git archive with --format=tar option instead (and move the <base> argument to --prefix=base/). Creates a tar archive containing the tree structure for the named tree. When <base> is specified it is added as a leading path to the files in the generated tar archive. git tar-tree behaves differently when given a tree ID versus when given a commit ID or tag ID. In the first case the current time is used as modification time of each file in the archive. In the latter case the commit time as recorded in the referenced commit object is used instead. Additionally the commit ID is stored in a global extended pax header. It can be extracted using git get-tar-commit-id. OPTIONS
<tree-ish> The tree or commit to produce tar archive for. If it is the object name of a commit object. <base> Leading path to the files in the resulting tar archive. --remote=<repo> Instead of making a tar archive from local repository, retrieve a tar archive from a remote repository. CONFIGURATION
tar.umask This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the world write bit. The special value "user" indicates that the archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) for details. EXAMPLES
git tar-tree HEAD junk | (cd /var/tmp/ && tar xf -) Create a tar archive that contains the contents of the latest commit on the current branch, and extracts it in /var/tmp/junk directory. git tar-tree v1.4.0 git-1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz Create a tarball for v1.4.0 release. git tar-tree v1.4.0^{tree} git-1.4.0 | gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz Create a tarball for v1.4.0 release, but without a global extended pax header. git tar-tree --remote=example.com:git.git v1.4.0 >git-1.4.0.tar Get a tarball v1.4.0 from example.com. git tar-tree HEAD:Documentation/ git-docs > git-1.4.0-docs.tar Put everything in the current head's Documentation/ directory into git-1.4.0-docs.tar, with the prefix git-docs/. GIT
Part of the git(1) suite Git 1.7.10.4 11/24/2012 GIT-TAR-TREE(1)
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