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tar – extract discarding directory structure

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Mar 15, 202682105 views
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has a nifty option , whereby the directory structure of the archive is discarded, and all files are extracted into the same directory. Is there a way of making work in the same way? Nothing in the man page seems to indicate so. So, is there an alternative, preferably Free Software, tool that will d…

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GNU tar lives on featuritis, so naturally also has some options for that. http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/transform.html If you just want to remove a few path segments, then or will often do: But it's also possible to regex-rewrite …

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