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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: bru relative path extraction
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- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 01:43:21 GMT
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- In <89086@netnews.upenn.edu> raines@dirac.physics.upenn.edu (Paul Edgar Raines) writes:
-
- | Is there a way to extract bru archive files with the name /usr/example/*
- | to disk files with the name /usr2/exmpl/*? The -j relative path option
- | does not seem to allow you to specify the "point of relativity" so that
- | it extracts to /usr2/exmpl/usr/example/*.
-
- Use:
- cd /usr2/exmpl
- bru -xvj /usr/example
-
- -j strips the leading /, and extracts relative to the
- current directory (but the / must still be given on the
- /usr/example portion on the command line).
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