At Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:16:41 -0700 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> 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.
>
> 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)
Assuming you did:
tar czvf ugui-package.tar.gz ugui
Then you would do:
tar xzvf ugui-package.tar.gz -C /opt
The 'z' option implies piping the output (c) or input (x or t) though
gzip. Using 'j' instead of 'z' implies bzip2 instead.
The -C option implies a cd to the directoriy specified.
I don't believe tar itself can have an absolute directory embedded. GNU
Tar *always* strips off a leading '/' in archives (but see the -P
option).
Just using tar, I don't think you can *force* a user to unpack under a
specific directory tree. You might want to consider using the rpm
system, which can in fact enforce where a package is unpacked into.
>
> Thanks!
> -ML
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