Re: change folder heirarchy in a tar file without extracting to disk

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 03:08:53PM -0000, [e-mail] wrote:
> Is there a way to change the folder structure inside a tar file without extracting it to disk first?
>
> For example, I have the following file/folder structure in a tar file, test.tar.
>
> dir1/
> dir1/file1
> dir1/file2
>
> I would like the contents to be modified to.
>
> dir2/dir1/
> dir2/dir1/file1
> dir2/dir1/file2
>
> Thank you in advance.

libarchive can probably do this kind of thing.  Some coding required
however ...

By far the easiest way would be to accept that you need to unpack it
to disk.

Rich.