5 Oct
2005
5 Oct
'05
01:02
Tuesday 04 Oct 2005 20:44 samaye Catimimi alekhiit:
I think that it is not recommended to write in the folder which you are compressing, since you would compress the new file too !!!
This is crazy! If I understand the command ls | cpio -ov > ../message right, you are giving the output of ls as input for cpio, which is to output to the file specified after >. Well first ls is executed, at which time the new CPIO archive is not yet created, and then cpio is executed with what ls provided it, which does not include the not-yet-created CPIO archive, and after that the CPIO archive is created. How is there a possibility of infinite looping here?