Marian Hettwer <[email protected]> wrote: > You are right. One should rely on posix standards.
Well, the POSIX archiver utility is pax(1). The combination of find(1) and pax(1) also lends itself to excluding directories. > Talking about BSD specifics. I really like the possibility on my > FreeBSD box with bsdtar to not specify -z or -j depending on the > archived tar file. [...] This would never work with any other tar > I encountered... GNU tar has had this for some time, too. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected]

