Shell Programming and Scripting

Dears,
I have copied one compressed file from one directory to another directory
say finame.txt.tar.gz copied from FirstDirectory to SecondDirecory

Code:

cd FirstDirectory  /
cp finame.txt.tar.gz  SecondDirecory
cd SecondDirecory/

once i do gunzip to finame.txt.tar.gz it, the file got decompressed into second directory

but when i execute tar xvf finame.txt.tar, the file got extracted in the FirstDirectory not in the SecondDirecory.

Please i look for help

thank you

How was the archive created? What's the output (first few lines) of 'tar tf finame.txt.tar'?

the following is the code to create the archive

Code:

HDIR=/FirstDirectory

tar cvf /FirstDirectory/finame.txt.tar  /FirstDirectory/finame.txt
gzip /FirstDirectory/finame.txt.tar

the output (first few lines) of 'tar tf finame.txt.tar looks like

Code:

x /FirstDirectory/finame.txt, 1374709659 bytes, 2684980 tape blocks

Seems like the archive is automatically created using absolute path names. Check the man page for tar for any option to turn this off, or use this code instead:

Code:

cd /
tar cf FirstDirectory/finame.txt.tar FirstDirectory/finame.txt

Dear,
could you help in turn off the option of using absolute path names. i searched but found nothing
the code in your mail didn't work

thank you