[ILUG] tar...

[Niall O Broin]

On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 06:32:24AM +0000, kevin lyda wrote:

> let's say i want to tar directory foo, but i want it to untar later as
> directory foo-1.0.0.  how can i get tar to do that?

Is there a reason why any of the following won't do:


1) mv foo foo-1.0.0; tar cf file.tar foo-1.0.0; mv foo-1.0.0 foo

2) ln -d foo foo-1.0.0; tar cf file.tar foo-1.0.0;rmdir foo-1.0.0

3) cd foo; tar cf file.tar .
   # extract step
   mkdir foo-1.0.0; cd foo-1.0.0; tar xf file.tar

3) cd foo; tar cf file.tar .
   # extract step
   mkdir foo-1.0.0; cd foo-1.0.0; tar xf file.tar


and goodness knows how many other variations on the theme. However, I don't
believe that there's any way you can do

tar cf file.tar foo

and then have a subsequent

tar xf file.tar

create the directory foo-1.0.0 instead of foo.

You could probably achieve what you want with the --use-compress-program
switch and a custom program which would mangle a tar stream passed through
it but bugger me if I can see why you'd do that rather than one of the nice
simple solutions mentioned above.




Niall