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I am running a PHP script that gets me the absolute paths of files I want to tar up. This is the syntax I have:
tar -cf tarname.tar -C /www/path/path/file1.txt /www/path/path2/path3/file2.xls When I untar it, it creates the absolute path to the files. How do I get just /path with everything under it to show?
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Sometimes it's nice if you are tar zipping a directory (let's say for a backup) and want to exclude a directory. For instance, if you are backing up a project and want to exclude the images directory (for size) or exclude the build or dist directory you can run the linux tar command with the --exclude option.
To change directories using absolute pathnames, type cd /directory/directory; to change directories using relative pathnames, type cd directory to move one directory below, cd directory/directory to move two directories below, etc.; to jump from anywhere on the filesystem to your login directory, type cd; to change to ...
tar instead of gzip --stdout file. tar > file. tar. gz gzip will delete the tar file for you.
A path is either relative or absolute. An absolute path always contains the root element and the complete directory list required to locate the file. For example, /home/sally/statusReport is an absolute path.
If you want to remove the first n leading components of the file name, you need strip-components. So in your case, on extraction, do
tar xvf tarname.tar --strip-components=2 The man page has a list of tar's many options, including this one. Some earlier versions of tar use --strip-path for this operation instead.
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You are incorrectly using the -C switch, which is used for changing directories. So what you need to do is:
tar -cf tarname.tar -C /www/path path/file1.txt path2/path3/file2.xls or if you want to package everything under /www/path do:
tar -cf tarname.tar -C /www/path . You can use -C switch multiple times.
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