tar parm to ignore folders

[thedaver]

I need to extract from a tar zgip archive that has folders stored in it. I cannot find from the 'man' which param tells 'tar zxvf' to ignore the folders and untar the files without folder structure from the archive.

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[zephan]

Is it a hazard it has not reply ?

 

[LKBrwnDBA]

The only way is to tar the files without the directory structure in the first place!

If files were tar'ed with incomplete path (path not beginning with '/') a work-around is to un-tar into some temp directory and then move (mv) to destination location.


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[KenCunningham]

Or perhaps consider pax. If there are not too many files, you can rename them interactively, alternatively, look at the -s option in the man pages.

However, as LKBrwnDBA says, check how the files were written in the first place with tar ztvf (this won't overwrite anything, just display to the screen).