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| From: | Tim Kientzle |
| Subject: | Re: [Bug-tar] Tar cheats when directed to /dev/null |
| Date: | Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:25:06 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20100314 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 |
Phillip Susi wrote:
...I finally figured out that tar was cheating. I was directing the output of various backup utilities to /dev/null ...
There's an easy way to disable this particular optimization: tar cf - dir | cat > /dev/null
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