[NTLUG:Discuss] untar-ing without creating one level of directories

[Stuart Johnston]

Richard wrote:
> Rick Cook wrote:
>> On Monday 11 February 2008 22:40:02 Wayne Walker wrote:
>>   
>>> My bad, it's --strip-path or --strip-components  according to the
>>> version of tar you have.
>>>     
>> My bad too. Mine is --strip-components.
>>   
> Who'd have THUNK that the man page wasn't all inclusive!  How the heck 
> does that happen?

Many man pages for GNU commands end with this note:

> SEE ALSO
>        The full documentation for tar is maintained as a  Texinfo  man-
>        ual.   If  the  info  and tar programs are properly installed at
>        your site, the command
> 
>               info tar
> 
>        should give you access to the complete manual.