From: me@privacy.net   
      
   In <4d05045f$0$6762$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net>, on 12/12/2010    
      at 06:20 PM, Lars Erdmann  said:   
      
   >Marcel Müller wrote:   
   >> Lars Erdmann wrote:   
   >>> is there a command line switch so that tar IGNORES the paths of archived   
   files and instead extracts them to the current working directory ?   
   >>   
   >> --substitute is your friend.   
   >>   
   >> Or do you want to flatten the entire archive structure?   
      
   >For the .tar in question, it's only contains 3 files, 2 thereof have the   
   >wrong path (and it differs). So your solution is good enough. I'll just   
   >run tar 3 times.   
      
   If you have FC/2 on your system as well you should be able to use it to   
   address this by walking through the tar in one window and target directory   
   in the other.   
      
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