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tar: exclude leading part of the absolute path when making an archive
When archiving /dir1/dir2/dir3/*.txt using tar, I want to include only the dir3/*.txt in the archive. -C option (means change directory to) can be used.
tar -C /dir1/dir2 -cvf dir3.tar dir3/*.txt
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