On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Gaël DONVAL <gael.don...@cnrs-imn.fr> wrote: > Hi, > > Do you know of any lighter/simpler alternative to the tar program? > tar preserves permissions, time stamps, etc. and this is great in some > cases. But in other cases, one just wants a simple way to concatenate > files. > > Any idea? >
If all you want is not to preserve permissions, timestamps, etc., you can use the appropriate options to the tar program to disable those features. If you object to the tar format itself, you can look at cpio, which might support some more formats. (although the tar program seems to have grown support for several (most?) of those). If you want a smaller/simpler tar program for some reason, busybox has a version of tar, which has much fewer options. But, unless you are in an environment that is already using busybox, you probably won't have a net gain if you install busybox just for a smaller tar. -- regards, kushal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cah8gtdmsoa1-wyvjrqtzx19+xr1t6bbt59hsfsnko6ev6z4...@mail.gmail.com
