tar - removing the path reference - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

Stompy · 07-20-2004, 10:45 AM

Let's say I'm at "c:\" and tar.exe is in the same path.

I do "tar cvf test.tar myFiles\*.bz2" and it creates c:\blah.tar of all the .bz2 files in c:\myFiles.

The problem is, the path name is in the tar file. I open the file, I see a "myFiles" folder, and all the files I want are in there.

Is there a way to get rid of the path? I'm gonna embed this exe in a desktop application of ours that zips up people's xml files that we create, the app uploads them to our server, and then our server untars, unzips, and sorts the files as needed.

If someone has files in "c:\documents and settings\user\my documents\blahFiles", I don't want that big ol' path being created when I unzip them to the server.

yotta · 07-20-2004, 10:56 AM

cd myFiles
c:\tar.exe cvf test.tar *.bz2

other the that... not with GNU tar.

07-20-2004, 10:45 AM	#1 (permalink)
Stompy Banned from being Banned Location: Donkey	tar - removing the path reference Let's say I'm at "c:\" and tar.exe is in the same path. I do "tar cvf test.tar myFiles\*.bz2" and it creates c:\blah.tar of all the .bz2 files in c:\myFiles. The problem is, the path name is in the tar file. I open the file, I see a "myFiles" folder, and all the files I want are in there. Is there a way to get rid of the path? I'm gonna embed this exe in a desktop application of ours that zips up people's xml files that we create, the app uploads them to our server, and then our server untars, unzips, and sorts the files as needed. If someone has files in "c:\documents and settings\user\my documents\blahFiles", I don't want that big ol' path being created when I unzip them to the server. __________________ I love lamp.

07-20-2004, 10:56 AM	#2 (permalink)
yotta Irresponsible	cd myFiles c:\tar.exe cvf test.tar *.bz2 other the that... not with GNU tar. __________________ I am Jack's signature.