re Tar and directorys

Mike,

Might set up a link

mkdir /mydir
ln -s /mydir dir1

then fire up tar

Not exactly what you want, but pretty cheap!

> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 22:26:04 -0900
> From: Barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net>
> Subject: tar and directories
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mike B.
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