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Date: 2008nov6
Language: bash
Keywords: slash

Q.  When I use tar it says: "Removing leading `/' from member names"
how can I suppress that message?

A.  I wish there was an option for this but here is the best way.

If you are doing:

tar cf /aaa/bbb/ccc.tar /xxx/yyy/zzz

Change it to:

SRC=/xxx/yyy/zzz
DIRNAME=`dirname $SRC`
BASENAME=`basename $SRC`
tar cf /aaa/bbb/ccc.tar -C $DIRNAME $BASENAME

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