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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>Why is the option "Extract with full path" disabled when using the -e switch with tar archives?</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="xarchiver.css" type="text/css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.71.0" /><link rel="start" href="index.html" title="Xarchiver 0.5" /><link rel="up" href="ch04.html" title="Chapter 4. FAQ" /><link rel="prev" href="ch04s03.html" title="Why does Xarchiver emit this error message when handling tar archives?" /><link rel="next" href="ch04s05.html" title="Why does Xarchiver sometimes report errors but the Error messages window is empty?" /></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Why is the option "Extract with full path" disabled when using the -e switch with tar archives?</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ch04s03.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 4. FAQ</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch04s05.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="fourth"></a>Why is the option "Extract with full path" disabled when using the -e switch with tar archives?</h2></div></div></div><p>Because GNU tar does not provide a full way to extract files without the directories in which they are contained as the other archivers do. Extraction without path when using the GUI is perfomed with a trick which is not available when using the -e switch from the command line.
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