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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem untaring gzip Post 302672609 by alister on Monday 16th of July 2012 04:16:30 PM
Old 07-16-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by jrymer
For example I'm compressing a directory named "dir" with the path name /home/username/directory/dir. When I compress "dir" then move and extract it, it extracts both the contents of dir (which is what I wanted) but also /home/user/directory.
If I understood you correctly, your problem is that the members of the archive are using an absolute path and you want them to be relative, so that when you extract them the newly-created pathnames are relative to the current working directory at the time of extraction.

If that's the case, you probably want tar to switch working directory before creating the archive:
Code:
tar -zcvf dir.tar.gz -C /home/user/directory "${F}"

Regards,
Alister
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