The ~ expands to an absolute path. If your tar is not GNU tar, then the leading / is not stripped off. And a relocation during extraction is impossible.
I would use cd and let the shell expand the wildcards *.txt (without quotes. I think that tar handles wildcards (in quotes) only at extraction, anyway).
Now tar -tf test.tar shows the files without path. So you can extract at any location you want, using cd or the -C option.
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Hi,
ich just uploaded a file to the forum and found that the tar.gz extension for files is not allowed... i renamend the file to *.zip but tar.gz is a common format in the unix world. is it possible to change that?
tia,
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hi guys..
Since am a bit new to shell scripting, can anyone help me with this problem please.. i've been struggling with it since 2 days. :(
I have a directory lets say myFolder and within it I have sub directories let say myFolder1.tar, myFolder2, myFolder3, etc. I need to write a shell... (12 Replies)
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if I have a tarfile called pmapdata.tar that contains
tar -tvf pmapdata.tar
-rw-r--r-- 0/0 21 Oct 15 11:00 2009 /var/tmp/pmapdata/pmap4628.txt
-rw-r--r-- 0/0 21 Oct 14 20:00 2009 /var/tmp/pmapdata/pmap23752.txt
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