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Article #119Re: Reading Tar files
From: Ti Kan
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 1990 00:56
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 1990 00:56
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In article <3614@zorba.Tynan.COM> twc@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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