On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 5:57 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 03:08:53PM -0000, jerome.ya...@gmail.com wrote: > > Is there a way to change the folder structure inside a tar file without > extracting it to disk first? > > > > For example, I have the following file/folder structure in a tar file, > test.tar. > > > > dir1/ > > dir1/file1 > > dir1/file2 > > > > I would like the contents to be modified to. > > > > dir2/dir1/ > > dir2/dir1/file1 > > dir2/dir1/file2 > > > > Thank you in advance. > > libarchive can probably do this kind of thing. Some coding required > however ... > > By far the easiest way would be to accept that you need to unpack it > to disk. > > Rich. > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~ > rjones > Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com > libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, > bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Try this... mkdir dir2 add it to archive via built-in archive software, in my case archive manager for gnome. You should have both dir1 and dir2 in archive. Right click dir1 and chose cut. Navigate into dir2 and paste. I created directory "test1" and then: touch test1/file1 touch test1/file2 creating two files in test1. In the file manager I chose to "create archive" then did the above successfully thus restructuring the archive without extraction. Mileage may vary. HTH. -- Fred
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