At 5:36 PM +0800 6/24/06, Stephen Liu wrote: >Hi folks, > >I create a tarred file then compressed with bzip with following command >line; > ># tar -jcpf AAA.bz2 /home/path/to/dirA > >dirA is about 2G in size. > >After working several days on dirA I want to create a new compressed >tarred file. Instead of repeating the above command, is there a way >starting from the old file AAA.bz2 making use of the options -u, -N, >-G, etc. to reduce the compressing time? I looked around on man tar and >Internet and could not sort out their combination on the command line. > >Could you please shed me some light. TIA I would guess you would want to use tar's --listed-incremental feature, but you'll have to start over. "info tar". ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
