It is not duplicate, other questions on stackexchange are about getting rid of this message as archive is created.
Is it possible, given archive that was created with -P option (with leading `/')?
I have an archive created with "--absolute-names" (-P option) - with leading /.
I want to unpack it, with / stripped (tar is doing it by default).
It is almost ideal, but I want to silence:
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names.without removing other messages (so brute force in the form of 2>/dev/null is not a solution).
I found multiple solution how to silence this message during creating archive but none for unpacking.
I know about grep -v but it will (a) hide error code from tar (b) add its own error code if message about / is not stripped.
This situation may be replicated with
cd /home/user/tmp
touch a.txt
mateusz@Grisznak:~/Desktop/tmp$ tar --create -P /home/user/tmp > a.tar
mateusz@Grisznak:~/Desktop/tmp$ tar --extract --file=a.tar To avoid XY problem: I am unpacking archives created by backup gem ().
