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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers extract tar files without creating directory Post 56129 by Perderabo on Tuesday 28th of September 2004 11:00:07 AM
Old 09-28-2004
One way is via pax. I created directory called tartest and populated it with a few files. The I did:
tar cvf tartest.tar tartest

This results in a tar archive with files in a directory called tartest. I can restore this with pax via:

pax -r -dv -f tartest.tar

But if I want to restore the files directly into my current directory, I can do:

pax -r -f tartest.tar -s'/tartest\///'

Before you try something like that, do this... "pax -dv -f tartest.tar" is like "tar tvf tartest.tar". It just lists the contents of the tar archive. Now do:

pax -dv -f tartest.tar -s'/tartest\///p'

and look at the results. This way you can be sure that you have the -s argument right before you try the restore.
 

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archive_write_set_format_ustar

ARCHIVE_WRITE_FORMAT(3) 				   BSD Library Functions Manual 				   ARCHIVE_WRITE_FORMAT(3)

NAME

     archive_write_set_format_cpio, archive_write_set_format_pax, archive_write_set_format_pax_restricted, archive_write_set_format_shar,
     archive_write_set_format_shar_dump, archive_write_set_format_ustar -- functions for creating archives

LIBRARY

     Streaming Archive Library (libarchive, -larchive)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <archive.h>

     int
     archive_write_set_format_cpio(struct archive *);

     int
     archive_write_set_format_pax(struct archive *);

     int
     archive_write_set_format_pax_restricted(struct archive *);

     int
     archive_write_set_format_shar(struct archive *);

     int
     archive_write_set_format_shar_dump(struct archive *);

     int
     archive_write_set_format_ustar(struct archive *);

DESCRIPTION

     These functions set the format that will be used for the archive.

     The library can write POSIX octet-oriented cpio format archives, POSIX-standard ``pax interchange'' format archives, traditional ``shar'' ar-
     chives, enhanced ``dump'' shar archives that store a variety of file attributes and handle binary files, and POSIX-standard ``ustar'' ar-
     chives.  The pax interchange format is a backwards-compatible tar format that adds key/value attributes to each entry and supports arbitrary
     filenames, linknames, uids, sizes, etc.  ``Restricted pax interchange format'' is the library default; this is the same as pax format, but
     suppresses the pax extended header for most normal files.	In most cases, this will result in ordinary ustar archives.

RETURN VALUES

     These functions return ARCHIVE_OK on success, or ARCHIVE_FATAL.

ERRORS

     Detailed error codes and textual descriptions are available from the archive_errno() and archive_error_string() functions.

SEE ALSO

     tar(1), libarchive(3), archive_write(3), archive_write_set_options(3), cpio(5), mtree(5), tar(5)

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