Have you tried using the -C option (--directory) to change to the directory you want the files in before extracting them?
The other thing to check may be that absolute paths are not being stored in the tarball - i.e. tar is not storing "C:\file\of\doom.txt" in the archive itself, using tar --list --file=archive_file.tar
-Sam
On 9/9/06, ak2 <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi. I'm a newbie and have read the man info for this but haven't found an
answer. I am using a build of GNU tar for Windows (v1.13). I am attempting
to use to Tar to Tar a directory struction and save the resulting file to a
different location on a different drive (i.e. source files on local disk but
Tar file to be saved to a network drive). I am also trying to find the
syntax to extract files from a TAR file to a different location (including
different drive).
I have followed the syntax in the tar --help pages as well as scoured the
web for info regarding this. I thought that it would be as simple as (for
extracting): "tar --extract --file=archive_file.TAR c:\testing".
When I execute this command however, it tries to un-tar the files to their
original location instead of "c:\testing".
Any ideas?
Thanks,
ak2
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