Say I have a directory of files at

/home/user1/dir1

and I want to create a tar with only "dir1" as the leading directory:

/dir1/file1
/dir1/file2

I know I can first cd to the directory

cd /home/user1/
tar czvf dir1.tar.gz dir1

But when writing scripts, jumping from directory to directory isn't always favorable. I am wondering is there a way to do it with absolute paths without changing current directories?

I know I can always create a tar file with absolute paths INSIDE and use

--strip-components

when extracting but sometimes extra path names are extra private information that you don't want to distribute with your tar files.

Thanks!