tar and /

Daniel Braniss danny at cs.huji.ac.il
Tue Oct 7 06:53:29 UTC 2014


hi,
for security reasons tar removes the leading /, which is fine.
so I can chadir to /var/tmp, and do an extract there. The problem arises when there
is a file that is linked to /…
Is there some way to drop that leading ‘/‘ too?

cheers,



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