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Say I have a directory of files at
/home/user1/dir1
and I want to create a tar with only “dir1″ as the leading directory:
/dir1/file1
/dir1/file2
I know I can first cd to the directory
cd /home/user1/
tar czvf dir1.tar.gz dir1
But when writing scripts, jumping from directory to directory isn’t always favorable. I am wondering is there a way to do it with absolute paths without changing current directories?
I know I can always create a tar file with absolute paths INSIDE and use
--strip-components
when extracting but sometimes extra path names are extra private information that you don’t want to distribute with your tar files.
Thanks!
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tar -C changes directory
tar -C /home/user1/ -cvzf dir1.tar.gz dir1
btw, handy one for keeping track of changing directories… use pushd and popd.
pushd .
cd /home/user1
tar cvfz dir1.tar.gz
popd
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