.tar files without directory structure
Solution 1:
tar will preserve the file and folder structure so I don't think there's any way to instruct tar to flatten the hierarchy at creation time.
One workaround is to temporarily change directory, create the tar, then go back - a quick example below:
cd example/super_user && tar -cvf ../../result.tar Output.* && cd ../..
Solution 2:
If the directory 'example' is at the root of the filesystem, here's another way:
tar -C /example/super_user -cvf result.tar .
this will change directory to the point that you want to do the tar. The caveat is that if there are any subdirectories under /example/super_user, the directory structure will be preserved for these sub-directories.
Solution 3:
I've posted my answer here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13924856/unix-tar-do-not-preserve-directory-structure
repost (for lazy ppl)
This is ugly... but it works...
I had this same problem but with multiple folders, I just wanted to flat every files out. You can use the option "transform" to pass a sed expression and... it works as expected.
this is the expression:
's/.*\///g'
(delete everything before '/')
This is the final command:
tar --transform 's/.*\///g' -zcvf tarballName.tgz */*/*.info