[Bug-tar] feature request - add option to cut directory path on extract

[Bdale Garbee]

Debian user Marc Haber <address@hidden> filed the following as
a wishlist bug against the Debian package of GNU tar. 

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Bdale


  Hi,

  some archives have members like

  foo/bar
  foo/baz
  foo/bam

  When I now want to extract the three members bar, baz and bam to the
  directory fom instead foo, I need to extract to foo and then to move
  the files over manually.

  patch(1) solves that problem by offering an option taking the number
  of path elements to cut away before using the path name. With an
  option like that, the above problem could be solved with

  tar --extract --cut-path-elements 1 --directory fom

  Please consider forwarding this request upstream.

  Greetings
  Marc