Re: [Bug-tar] problem with multiple -C options on extraction

[Joerg Schilling]

Keh-Cheng Chu <address@hidden> wrote:

> % tar tf junk.tar
> a/
> a/aa
> b/
> b/bb
>
> is there a way to extract the a tree and the b tree into
> different directories?
>
> I tried the command    
>
> % tar xvf junk.tar -C /tmp/A a -C /tmp/B b
> a/
> a/aa
> b/
> tar: a: Cannot utime: No such file or directory
> b/bb
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
> which did extract all the files to where I want them to be
> (/tmp/A/a/aa and /tmp/B/b/bb), but the second chdir (to /tmp/B) 
> seems to have happened a little too early.  

This kind of usage is possible with star.
Star remembers a -C option for every extract pattern.
This feature has been introduced 10 years ago.

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/

Jörg

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