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Forum: UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers 02-08-2020

How to tar an extension from a certain directory?

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Homework? According to the rules of this forum...

Homework?
According to the rules of this forum you must put a homework question in the sub forum "Homework and Emergencies" -> "Homework & Coursework Questions".
You find it further down the The...

Forum: UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers 02-07-2020

How to tar an extension from a certain directory?

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The ~ expands to an absolute path. If your tar is...

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...

Forum: UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers 02-07-2020

How to tar an extension from a certain directory?

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How did you produce your tar file? What is its...

How did you produce your tar file?
What is its contents? tar -tf testtar.tar

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