---------- quoting Christian Aust ---------- > Hmm, haven't thought of that. How would I easily tar everything > except /proc, /dev and /mnt, and send it through bzip2? Regards,
You can use tar with the "--exclude" option (see man page for more info). And tar has the feature to pipe all through gzip to pack the archive contents. Just use the "-z" flag for this (again, "man tar" is your friend). HTH, Matthias -- Matthias F. Brandstetter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] now playing "Groove Salad: a nicely chilled plate of ambient beats and grooves. [SomaFM]" -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
