Hi Jörg, > If you like to create working incremental backups that are able to > handle file renames, you need to backup any filesystem with exactly > one command run, so xargs is a really bad idea.
Agreed. I was just trying to help Steffen out of the hole he'd already dug. :-) Instead of xargs, GNU tar has -T to take the list of files from a file instead of argv[], and star has list=... that's similar. -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy
