RE: tar and directories

That's a great question!

I've never thought about it..
I'm assuming you want it to stay in the tarball...

I think the only option to modify the internal structure is to use mc.
If I remember right you can modify nearly everything about a tar file from
there.

Or you could just extract everything...
mv dir1 mydir

and then re-tar it.

Piet
>> if a tar file has directories like this:
>>
>> dir1/dir2/file1
>> dir1/dir2/dir3/file2
>> dir1/file3
>>
>> And I want to change 'dir1' into 'mydir'. Can I do that using a tar
>> option switch or do I have to use trickery. I looked at the man page,
>> but nothing obvious popped out at me.

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Received on Thu Dec 2 01:30:38 2004