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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: using TAR > other directories
- Message-ID: <njmsdg0@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 05:22:34 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.024650.5274@iat.holonet.net>
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- In <1992Jul22.024650.5274@iat.holonet.net> cboesel@iat.holonet.net (Charles Boesel) writes:
-
- | I'm trying the get some file out of their archives into the /usr
- | directory. Problem is, the files keep going to the / directory.
- |
- | Can you direct the extracted files to another volume (the /usr)?
-
- Sounds like they are on the tape with a full pathname. See man
- tar, and in particular, the 'R' option. Note that if a file is
- on the tape as /a/b/c, and you want to extract just that file,
- then with the R option, you specify it as tar xR ./a/b/c
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