On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Per Jessen <per@opensuse.org> wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote:
And as for the compression, is the code or that actually in the TAR binary or does it pipe through an external command?
I feel pretty certain it uses an external command - I'm sure I've seen the forked process in a 'ps axf' display.
All to often I find that I want to backup _some_ of a directory tree, not all of it, such as the RCS files but not the originals. Using 'find' or the like is wonderful for this.
+1.
/Per
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