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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Untar specific directory and strip leading directories Post 302498267 by DC Slick on Sunday 20th of February 2011 11:45:39 PM
Old 02-21-2011
Untar specific directory and strip leading directories
Ok so I know the title was probably confusing so here goes: I have a tarball (gzipped) that has a nested directory structure . For example:

Code:
 my.tar.gz (contents)
           [.]
             ---[var]
             ---[var]---[foo]
             ---[var]---[foo]---[bar]
             ---[var]---[foo]---[bar]---[dir]
             ---[var]---[foo]---[bar]---[dir]---[thats]
             ---[var]---[foo]---[bar]---[dir]---[thats]---[nested]

What I'm having the hardest time doing is extracting the directory [dir]--[thats]---[nested] ONLY. So no /var/foo/bar before it, just that directory and it's subdirectories. Real world dir/thats/nested/ is about 6 levels down. I'm restoring from the tarball and /dir/thats/nested is the actual directory on my box. So when i extract from it, i want it to overwrite /dir/thats/nested ON MY BOX. Kinda frustrated...I'll accept any good working solution for this at this point. Basically trying to not have to copy the tarball to the / directory to get it to overwrite /dir/thats/nested.
 

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deb-old(5)							      Debian								deb-old(5)

NAME

       deb-old - old style Debian binary package format

SYNOPSIS

       filename.deb

DESCRIPTION

       The  .deb  format  is the Debian binary package file format. This manual page describes the old format, used before Debian 0.93. Please see
       deb(5) for details of the new format.

FORMAT

       The file is two lines of format information as ASCII text, followed by two concatenated gzipped ustar files.

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