TAR: change the directory name when packing a tarball file

This is a quick reminder for me and for any developer. When using an SVN, and we want to publish a tarball, usually the name of the SVN is 1.0.0/ and the working directory of the tarball should be project-1.0.0/.

Command: TAR

TAR has the --transform directive. The following example takes the original directory 1.0.1/ and packs the source into the signup/ directory.

tar -czvf signup-clear-1.0.1.tar.gz 1.0.1/* --transform s/^1.0.1/signup/
1.0.1/README.txt
1.0.1/signup-config.php-txt
1.0.1/signup-debug.php
1.0.1/signup-domain-verify.php
1.0.1/signup-email-verify.php
1.0.1/signup-language.php
1.0.1/signup.php
1.0.1/signup-process.php
1.0.1/signup-user-verify.php

Verification of TAR

tar -tvf signup-clear-1.0.1.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- dieu/dieu      1040 2021-02-14 21:53 signup/README.txt
-rw-r--r-- dieu/dieu      8329 2021-02-14 22:02 signup/signup-config.php-txt
-rw-r--r-- dieu/dieu        62 2021-02-14 21:47 signup/signup-debug.php
-rw-r--r-- dieu/dieu       876 2021-02-14 21:47 signup/signup-domain-verify.php
-rw-r--r-- dieu/dieu       897 2021-02-14 21:47 signup/signup-email-verify.php
-rw-r--r-- dieu/dieu      8931 2021-02-14 21:47 signup/signup-language.php
-rw-r--r-- dieu/dieu     19783 2021-02-14 21:47 signup/signup.php
-rw-r--r-- dieu/dieu     23257 2021-02-14 21:47 signup/signup-process.php
-rw-r--r-- dieu/dieu       838 2021-02-14 21:47 signup/signup-user-verify.php

Good luck!