26 Jan
2017
26 Jan
'17
10:46 a.m.
On 01/26/2017 10:23 AM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
And this is exactly why I gave up on some proprietary
(OSF/1 IIRC)
`dump' utility as it recorded an archive directory at the beginning
making the whole archive unusable if an error developed there. OTOH
`tar' keeps file information along with actual data spreading it
across the archive, so any medium error only causes the immediately
affected file to be lost. Same with `cpio' (except for the arcane
CLI).
I find that the tar CLI in its full glory is no less arcane than the
creaky old cpio one.
tar used to be simple with few options.
--Chuck