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Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:44:57 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> > How do I tell tar when I am making the tarball to look at /mnt/gentoo/ |
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> > as it start point, root directory if you will? I read the man page but |
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> > suspect I am missing it somewhere. There has to be a way since it is |
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> > done that way for the stage 3 tarball. |
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> The same way you change directory when you extract, with -C. |
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Does gnu tar really did copy star behavior and now allows to use -C in extract |
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mode? |
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Well, star still combines the pattern matcher with -C and thus allows to |
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combine -C with pat= and thus to extract and sort controlled by patterns. |
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Jörg |
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EMail:joerg@××××××××××××××××××××××××.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin |
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js@××××××××××××.de (uni) |
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joerg.schilling@××××××××××××××××.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ |
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