[CentOS] tar and gunzip help
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Aug 21 20:23:39 UTC 2009
ML wrote:
> HI All,
>
> I have a directory tree that when the user un-gzips/untars it does
> into /opt by default.
>
> The directory tree is like:
>
> ugui
> |
> |-- <misc files>
> |-- source
> |-----framework
> |------ <misc files>
>
> so when unzipped I want to end it with /opt/ugui and all the stuff
> below it.
Gnutar will default to removing a leading / even if you include it in
the archive paths unless you use the -P option during both the archive
creation and extraction.
> How do I do this? Can I also issue one command that will unzip and
> untar the archive at the same time? (I know I can, I just cant get it
> right)
The -z option will gzip during creation and ungzip during extraction.
However, this operation really sounds like something that should be done
by building an RPM for distribution if it is strictly an end user
package or with one of the revision control packages (subversion, etc.)
if multiple users will be making changes to be merged.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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