How to untar an archive without the root folder, but keeping the full hierarchy inside it?
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Easy. Just use --strip-components=1 on the archive like this:
tar -xf archive.tar --strip-components=1
And as explained in the official tar man page:
--strip-components=NUMBER
strip NUMBER leading components from file names on extraction
With the logic being that if a path consists of foo/something.txt then the first “component” of that path would be foo/ so --strip-components=1 would effectively drop the foo/ from the path foo/something.txt.