I have a (probably) very simple tar question on a Solaris box that I'm a little embarrassed to ask. After repeatedly checking man tar and searching for solutions online (I'm not sure of the correct "keywords" to look for)
The question is:
If I were to use the command:
It would include /testing123/ within the tar file.
How would I either change the above command to 'not' include, or strip the directory information within this tar file?
Although that does work, Is there a way of doing this without changing the directory beforehand? (apologies for not asking that part of it in the original question) Thanks!
Not when using a wildcard, I think. That is done inside the shell, you can't feed a literal "*.gz" into tar and expect it to understand. So either you need to be in the directory, or specify the full path, for the shell to find the files before tar is called.
If you don't need wildcards, you might be able to do
to get it to archive all of /path/ indiscriminately.
Cheers!
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