There is no way to get tar to ignore directory paths of files that it is archiving. So, for example, if you have a large number of files scattered about in subdirectories, there is no way to tell tar to archive all the files while ignoring their subdirectories, such that when unpacking the archive you extract all the files to the same location. You can, however, tell tar to strip a fixed number of elements from the full (relative) path to the file when extracting using the "--strip-components" option. For example:
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