• user warning: Table './drupal6/captcha_sessions' is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed query: INSERT into captcha_sessions (uid, sid, ip_address, timestamp, form_id, solution, status, attempts) VALUES (0, 'pvguao3dd0jpiig839b6t3h8j3', '54.234.42.16', 1369281221, 'comment_form', '31e4a2e11a7dba2132460d42c497506f', 0, 0) in /var/www/sites/all/modules/captcha/captcha.inc on line 99.
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Skipping the first directory in a .tar file

Submitted by Sam on 23 February, 2012 - 00:49

Lots of the compressed files I download come in the form "project-name-1.2.3.tar.gz", and contain a directory within them named in the same format, so when you untar it creates a directory like "project-name-1.2.3", with all of the project files below it. As most of the time I seem to be already working in a new directory where I want the file to untar, I don't want to have to bother about moving the contents up a level and then deleting the old directory. The tar switch --strip-components=1 addresses this problem by removing the first directory on extraction.

See man tar | grep strip-components .

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