Re: change folder heirarchy in a tar file without extracting to disk

2016-10-06 Thread fred roller
On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 5:57 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 03:08:53PM -, jerome.ya...@gmail.com wrote: > > Is there a way to change the folder structure inside a tar file without > extracting it to disk first? > > > > For example, I have the following file/folder stru

Re: change folder heirarchy in a tar file without extracting to disk

2016-10-06 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 03:08:53PM -, jerome.ya...@gmail.com wrote: > Is there a way to change the folder structure inside a tar file without > extracting it to disk first? > > For example, I have the following file/folder structure in a tar file, > test.tar. > > dir1/ > dir1/file1 > dir1/f

change folder heirarchy in a tar file without extracting to disk

2016-10-06 Thread jerome . yanga
Is there a way to change the folder structure inside a tar file without extracting it to disk first? For example, I have the following file/folder structure in a tar file, test.tar. dir1/ dir1/file1 dir1/file2 I would like the contents to be modified to. dir2/dir1/ dir2/dir1/file1 dir2/dir1/fi