From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 6 15:12:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA27804 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 15:12:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailhost.onramp.net (mailhost.onramp.net [199.1.11.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA27726 for ; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 15:12:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from slyce@onramp.net) Received: from onramp.net (ppp15-42.dllstx.onramp.net [206.50.201.106]) by mailhost.onramp.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA14753 for ; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 17:11:57 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3579BF0D.E0A6422F@onramp.net> Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 17:13:33 -0500 From: Slyce X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: tar ufv command Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG what exactly does the update -u command do??? I want to back-up new and updated files to in single tarball... It seems to me, it just appends all the files again to the end of the original tarball.... How do I have one single tarball and then simply update it with new or modified files??? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message