Unix Tip: EXTRACT RELATIVE FROM ABSOLUTE

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EXTRACT RELATIVE FROM ABSOLUTE

Ever had a tar archive which was tarred up with an absolute path, but you need to untar it to a relative location?

There is an easy way to do this using the "pax" command. Note: Not available on all flavors.

Firstly, copy the archive to the relative location in which you wish to untar it.

Then, execute the following command:

pax -r -s ',^/,,' -f file.tar

The contents of file.tar will now be in the $CWD.

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