Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:19:30 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: chloe K <chloekcy2000@yahoo.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hundred files to tar and untar Message-ID: <20081110151930.GB73102@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> In-Reply-To: <257066.24717.qm@web57412.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <257066.24717.qm@web57412.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 08:10:36AM -0500, chloe K wrote: > Hi > > I have hundred files to tar > > How can I make tar the file but untar in different folder? > > eg: > > tar cvf html.tar /var/web/data/verion/cc.html > > untar html.tar /var/web/data/root/cc.html > > Thank you RTFM. Specifically look at the -C option. Or you could do it the simple way (note parenthesis, the cd only applies within the parenthesis, when the command clompletes your shell is back to the original directory): (cd /var/web/data/verion/cc.html ; tar -cvf <somewhere>/html.tar * ) (cd /var/web/data/root/cc.html ; tar -xvf <somewhere>/html.tar ) The above does not store the path prefix in the tar archive, which is perhaps the problem you were trying to solve? -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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