extracting tar files with absolute pathnames relatively

[Ray E Saddler III]

In article <1501 at cfa205.cfa250.harvard.edu>, todd at cfa250.harvard.edu (Todd Karakashian) writes:
> I am in posession of tapes containing tarfiles with absolute
> pathnames.  What I would like to do is to extract these files into a
> different tree structure than they were tarred from.  Thus, the
> tarfile /usr/foo/file should go into the disk pathname /temp/file.  I
> have been unable to find a way to do this -- does anyone know how?

I've encountered the same scnerio and have used this trick:

Make a link (symbolic in my instance) in the /usr directory.  The
link name would be 'foo', and would simply point to /temp.

It works quite nicely.


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