extract tar file to different folder

DonnieBrasco

hi,
im trying to get a tar file that was archived on a box with completely different folders structures to extract onto another box with different folders.

how can i do this?
can i get tar extract to ignore attempting to create folders, just extract to a specified folder?

cheers
db

Orion

you can use the '-no-recursion' switch to dump all the files into one directory - is that what you mean?

carveone

DonnieBrasco wrote: »

hi,
im trying to get a tar file that was archived on a box with completely different folders structures to extract onto another box with different folders.

how can i do this?
can i get tar extract to ignore attempting to create folders, just extract to a specified folder?

cheers
db

Good question. If you mean like pkunzip used to (annoyingly) do by default, that is extract every file in the archive into one directory, I don't believe so. There's no option to do it, even in Gnu tar. You could, however, extract the files first and then write a script to flatten the result...

carveone

Macros42 wrote: »

you can use the '-no-recursion' switch to dump all the files into one directory - is that what you mean?

Oh, I thought that switch was only valid with --create. Not in front of a unix machine now so I can't check...

DonnieBrasco

Macros42 wrote: »

you can use the '-no-recursion' switch to dump all the files into one directory - is that what you mean?

yes - i think !

3 files within the same directory were tar'd.

This directory on the new server does not exist and now when trying to un-tar it produces errors because i dont have create directory privs to create the original directory structure.
So i just want to un-tar to a single specified folder.

As it happens... i've been able to untar from a windows workstation and just ftp'd the files individually to the folder. so i have now worked around it. im curious tho !

cheers
db

Orion

The man page says nothing about --norecursion being only valid with --create so I'm not sure. However from the sounds of things you could have used sudo or just extracted in your own home directory to get what you want.

Rambo

DonnieBrasco wrote: »

hi,
im trying to get a tar file that was archived on a box with completely different folders structures to extract onto another box with different folders.

how can i do this?
can i get tar extract to ignore attempting to create folders, just extract to a specified folder?

cheers
db

have you tried using ark --extract-to

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/gutsy/man1/ark.1.html

Catch_22

just chroot the tar extract to some folder and then you can do what you like with the resulting files.

E39MSport

Catch_22 wrote: »

just chroot the tar extract to some folder and then you can do what you like with the resulting files.

Nice !