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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Extracting directories only from tar ball Post 302702473 by hergp on Tuesday 18th of September 2012 10:56:45 AM
Old 09-18-2012
This might work (untested):
Code:
tar tf archive.tar | sed 's/\/[^\/]*$//' | sort | uniq | xargs mkdir -p

The sed-call strips the last component from all pathnames (like dirname), sort and uniq eliminate duplicates and the last command creates the directories.

You probably will have to adapt the sequence to your needs.

Last edited by hergp; 09-18-2012 at 04:01 PM.. Reason: typo
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