RE: Handling ...

RE: Handling ...

[dahms]

Hi Chris, you wrote:

: I have gnutar image that I made in an OSF DFS environment.
: Unfortunately, I made the image with absolute paths, so all of the
: items start with the /... prefix.  I can't untar it because I can't
: create a directory named /... or ...
: 
: I have tried to make folders in NT explorer, the DOS console and under
: bash.   I've also tried to map /... and ... using the mount command.
: None of these work.

I thought gnutar defaults to removing the leading slash from absolute paths
and issues a warning about this. b17.1 is also gnutar, check it's --help
for an option about stripping a given prefix. You might use "tvv" to see
what the archive actually contains.


Bye, Heribert (dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de)
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Re: Handling ...

[Francis Litterio]

Chris Cowan <cowan@pswtech.com> wrote:

> I have gnutar image that I made in an OSF DFS environment.
> Unfortunately, I made the image with absolute paths, so all of the
> items start with the /... prefix.  I can't untar it because I can't
> create a directory named /... or ...

> I have tried to make folders in NT explorer, the DOS console and under
> bash.   I've also tried to map /... and ... using the mount command.
> None of these work.

> Presently, I stymied.  Does anyone have a suggestion around this
> problem?

Fire up a suitably powerful editor (e.g., NTEmacs) on the tar file,
and carefully change the relevant occurances of /... to /xyz (if none
of the files in the tar file contain the character sequence "/...",
you can globally replace all occurances of that sequence).  Then mkdir
/xyz and untar the file.
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Handling ...

[Chris Cowan]

I have gnutar image that I made in an OSF DFS environment.
Unfortunately, I made the image with absolute paths, so all of the
items start with the /... prefix.  I can't untar it because I can't
create a directory named /... or ...

I have tried to make folders in NT explorer, the DOS console and under
bash.   I've also tried to map /... and ... using the mount command.
None of these work.

Presently, I stymied.  Does anyone have a suggestion around this
problem?  Is there a util for editing/renaming the filepaths in a tar
image.  (This thing is big and on removable media a Jaz drive, so I
don't have a lot of leeway to make temp copies or move it back and
forth between Unix and DOS systems).

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Handling ...

[Chris Cowan]

I have gnutar image that I made in an OSF DFS environment.
Unfortunately, I made the image with absolute paths, so all of the
items start with the /... prefix.  I can't untar it because I can't
create a directory named /... or ...

I have tried to make folders in NT explorer, the DOS console and under
bash.   I've also tried to map /... and ... using the mount command.
None of these work.

Presently, I stymied.   Does anyone have a suggestion around this
problem?  Is there a util for rename the filepaths in a tar image.
(This thing is big and on removable media, so I don't have a lot of
leeway to make temp copies).




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