I'm actually referring to pax format archives (ustar).
I want to be able to unarchive files - many files - but changing one string in the name to another. I typically use it to clone databases on Solaris. I may have 15 mount points all with a subdirectory named DB1. When I extract the files, I don't want to put them into the DB1 subdirectories. I want to put them into subdirectories named DB2. Or maybe I want to restore them to different mount points. Whatever. Unless I'm misunderstanding you I'd have to do each one separately with unzip. There could be hundreds within one archive. With pax I can have the utility rename them all automatically as it extracts them with a simple command like...
pax -r -s/DB1/DB2/p < filename.pax
pax is in the package paxutils, which is not yet in cygwin. http://directory.fsf.org/paxutils.html
Mark H. Colburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> created another `pax' program in 1989. The 1.1 version was published in comp.sources.unix, volume 17. From a 2.0 OS/2 port, Ian Stewartson made 2.1 and is working on version 2.2. ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/compress/pax-2.1.tar.gz
However it's straightforward to build paxutils. (into /usr/local)
cd /usr/src wget ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/paxutils/paxutils-2.4h.tar.gz tar xfz paxutils-2.4h.tar.gz cd paxutils-2.4h ./configure make && make check make install DESTDIR=/usr/src/paxutils-2.4h/.inst
several tar tests will fail: 44. ./t-create.m4:3 ok 45. ./t-create.m4:14 ignored near `t-create.m4:14' 46. ./t-create.m4:40 ok 47. ./t-create.m4:56 ok 48. ./t-create.m4:76 FAILED near `t-create.m4:120' 49. ./t-extract.m4:3 ok 50. ./t-extract.m4:17 ignored near `t-extract.m4:17' 51. ./t-extract.m4:37 ok 52. ./t-extract.m4:53 ok 53. ./t-extract.m4:68 ok 54. ./t-exclude.m4:3 ok 55. ./t-append.m4:3 ok 56. ./t-delete.m4:3 FAILED near `t-delete.m4:16' 57. ./t-delete.m4:20 ok 58. ./t-incremen.m4:3 FAILED near `t-incremen.m4:23' 59. ./t-incremen.m4:27 ok 60. ./t-gzip.m4:3 ok 61. ./t-volume.m4:3 ok mv: cannot move `stderr2' to `stderr': Permission denied ...
Note that paxutils includes unstable versions of tar and cpio. That might be the explanation why.
I have another version from the MS resource kit:
$ pax --help
c:\WINNT\system32\pax.exe: illegal option---
Usage: c:\WINNT\system32\pax.exe -[cimopuvy] [-f archive] [-s replstr] [-t device] [pattern...]
c:\WINNT\system32\pax.exe -r [-cimopuvy] [-f archive] [-s replstr] [-t device] [pattern...]
c:\WINNT\system32\pax.exe -w [-adimuvy] [-b blocking] [-f archive] [-s replstr] [-t device] [-x format] [pathname...]
c:\WINNT\system32\pax.exe -r -w [-ilmopuvy] [-s replstr] [pathname...] directory
For more information on c:\WINNT\system32\pax.exe syntax, see Command Reference Help in the Windows Help file.
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