...And then I found this: <a href="http://stupidunixlinuxtricks.blogspot.com/2008/03/be-careful-of-solaris-tar-command.html">http://stupidunixlinuxtricks.blogspot.com/2008/03/be-careful-of-solaris-tar-command.html</a><div>
<br></div><div>Frakking Solaris! Stone knives and bearskins. I suspected chroot might be involved somehow.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Kevin McGregor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevin.a.mcgregor@gmail.com">kevin.a.mcgregor@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Huh. I tried -C, and it didn't seem to work! Or at least, not the way I expected?<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Sean Cody <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sean@tinfoilhat.ca" target="_blank">sean@tinfoilhat.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Try tar xvf file.tar -C /tmp/someotherroot/<br>
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On 2011-08-19, at 7:19 PM, Kevin McGregor wrote:<br>
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> I have a TAR file (well, many) created with Solaris 10. I can restore it under same, but it seems the Solaris version of tar doesn't give you the option of stripping the leading "/" when restoring, which is a slight problem for my situation.<br>
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> Did I miss something, and it can restore to a relative path after all?<br>
> Does anyone have any other suggestions, such as other utilities to use or even OSs with a more flexible tar that can mount a UFS slice?<br>
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> Kevin<br>
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