exclude absolute paths when extracting Tar file?

UNIX Solaris
1

Hi,
How do I extract data from TAR excluding absolute paths for Tar? (Solaris)

Thanks

2

You can use pax which allows on the fly path substitution with its -s option.

3

Solaris 10 also comes with GNU tar as /usr/sfw/bin/gtar which strips leading slashes by default.

4

Thanks a lot!