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Old 03-29-2006
Solaris and PAX
I am having trouble with the pax command on Saris. I want to sue it to untar a file to a different directory. So if mytar.tar conatins files that were in /u02/mydir/mydir2/mydir3, I want to untar them to /export/home/mydir.

An example I have is:
Code:
pax -r -s '=^/u02/mydir/mydir2/mydir3=/export/home/mydir=' < mytar.tar

This gives me an error (I can't recall the exact error though). Other variants that I have tried do not change where the files are extracted. Any ideas?
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Old 03-29-2006
Just tried it on Solaris 9 and it worked perfectly for me using your syntax exactly. Here is a hint though: the next time you see an error message that you don't understand, write it down. Then it might be possible to help you.
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Old 03-29-2006
Things seem to be working now. Not sure what I did wrong. Must be like when you hear a noise in your car and you bring it to the mechanic. When you get there, no noise!

Thanks for the help!
 
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