tar issue

[Red Squirrel]

I noticed when I make a tar archive, it includes the full path, ex, if I tar the files in /usr/include/folder to folder.tar.gz, when I untar that file, it actually contains a folder called usr, then includes, then folder, then finally my files. How do I make it so the files are at the root of the tar archive?

 

[Colt45]

cd to /usr/include first?


or..
tar -vcf <outputfile.tar> -C /usr/include/ <folder>

the -C makes tar act if it was in /usr/include/ even if it isnt. The file will still be saved to whatever dir you called tar from (say home, or whatever) [this will make the tar be folder/file1 folder/file2, etc.]

and if you want no folder at all:
tar -cf out.tar -C /usr/include/folder .

note the '.'

I usually just do this though:
cd /usr/include/folder
tar -cf ~/out.tar .

not sure why.

 

[Red Squirrel]

That seems to have done it, thanks.