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Hello, I am using the below tar execution, and it works fine. The question is that when I extract, I always get the full path. Is there a way to ...
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  1. 04-01-2012 #1
    gaspower
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    Help With Tar Execution

    Hello,

    I am using the below tar execution, and it works fine. The question is that when I extract, I always get the full path. Is there a way to when extracting, that it only extracts the files and not include the full path to the files?

    tar -cvjf backup/filename.tar.bz2 /home/virtual/domain.com/var/www/html/ > /dev/null 2>&1.

    Example:
    tar -xvjf filename.tar.bz2 -> extracts to html/

    and not,

    /home/virtual/domain.com/var/www/html/

    Thanks JR
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  2. 04-04-2012 #2
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    man tar

    You'll be wanting to look at --strip-path or --strip-components depending on the version of tar you're using.
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  3. 04-04-2012 #3
    gaspower
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    Hello,

    Thank you. That works for me.

    JR
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