Ed Greshko wrote: <snip> > I don't know about anyone else here.... But if I have a large tar archive > I include as the first file in the archive a "ls" of what is in the > archive. +1 i have a script for cpio'ing that concatenates into a sub directory of; pwd, du -sb *, ls -Ar to a file named archive.yyyy.mm.dd not only do i have info in archive file, or tape, it keeps a running history of archiving of path in path. i can grep those files to find where file i am looking for is. i do not compress my archive files. > To me, archiving a bunch of smaller tars, zips, etc. doesn't make much > sense as it makes it harder for me to find what I am looking for, i.e. > lost. what do you do if archive file gets broken? -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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