Reading Tar files
Ti Kan
ti at altos86.Altos.COM
Wed Jul 4 10:56:44 AEST 1990
In article <3614 at zorba.Tynan.COM> twc at sun.com (Tim Curry) writes:
>use the chroot command to temporarily change the absolute path.
On UNIX System V rel 4.0, tar supports an 'A' option which lets you
specify a prefix to pre-pend to the path of each file to be extracted.
This can be used to get around the problem of absolute path names.
SOme other implementations of tar may offer a similar feature.
-Ti
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