Tim Kientzle wrote:
Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:Note that, apart from anything the tar command is doing, the "gzip"records the current date/time inside the .gz file.Good point; I wonder if bzip2 or lzma would avoid this problem? I don't think either of them records the current time.
Yes, bzip2 works too, i.e. tar cvfj a.tar.gz a/ is great. Chris
