Gaël DONVAL wrote: > 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.
The old 'ar' archive is fairly lightweight. Couple that with 'lzip' and you would have a fast and light combination. $ ar cru somename.ar file1 file2 file3 $ lzip somename.ar Here is a simple test using some small files: $ date > one $ date -R > two $ date +%s > three $ ar cru foo.ar one two three $ lzip foo.ar $ ar cru foo.ar one two three $ xz foo.ar $ tar caf foo.tar.gz one two three $ tar caf foo.tar.gz one two three $ tar caf foo.tar.lz one two three $ ls -log total 24 -rw-rw-r-- 1 151 Jul 25 11:46 foo.ar.lz -rw-rw-r-- 1 184 Jul 25 11:51 foo.ar.xz -rw-rw-r-- 1 216 Jul 25 11:46 foo.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 234 Jul 25 11:45 foo.tar.lz -rw-rw-r-- 1 224 Jul 25 11:45 foo.tar.xz -rw-rw-r-- 1 29 Jul 25 11:45 one -rw-rw-r-- 1 11 Jul 25 11:45 three -rw-rw-r-- 1 32 Jul 25 11:45 two Bob
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