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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?
If you want to remove the first n leading components of the file name, you need
strip-components. So in your case, on extraction, doThe man page has a list of
tar‘s many options, including this one. Some earlier versions oftaruse--strip-pathfor this operation instead.