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Re: chicken and egg
AJ>> Stupid check-and-the-egg question. I want to back up my entire
AJ>> hard-drive to a tgz file using tar. How can I do this, without
AJ>> adding the tar to the tar?!
Well, you might prepare the file list beforehand (with, e.g., find) and
then feed it to tar or cpio.
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