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Re: [SLE] tar question
  • From: Alexandr Malusek <Alexandr.Malusek@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: 16 May 2002 18:08:06 +0200
  • Message-id: <86k7q4oz2x.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Clayton Cornell <c.cornell@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> > 'tar xf opt.tar' will strip the leading '/', even if the archive was
> > created with '-P'.
>
> Hmmm no success. It still insists on untarring to /opt/appname - unless I
> misunderstood the instruction above.

I just wonder if you talk about SuSE Linux and GNU tar. If yes then it
is a bug which should be reported.

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