extracting files from a tar file

[Jon Gefaell]

In article <6155 at bgsuvax.UUCP> fyfe at bgsuvax.UUCP (Bob Fyfe) writes:
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>I have a faculty member who has brought a tape with him from a different site.
>It is a tar tape and the files were stored using absolute pathnames. The 
>difficulty is that we don't have the same file structure names and so when
>I would try to restore the files, it fills up the root file structure 
>quickly (we don't keep a whole lot of space available in that partition).
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GNU tar will take care of this for you. As a rule it doesnt' allow absolute
pathnames and will strip the leading / if there is one...
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