Marian Hettwer <m...@kernel32.de> wrote:

> You are right. One should rely on posix standards.

Well, the POSIX archiver utility is pax(1).  The combination of
find(1) and pax(1) also lends itself to excluding directories.

> Talking about BSD specifics. I really like the possibility on my
> FreeBSD box with bsdtar to not specify -z or -j depending on the
> archived tar file. [...] This would never work with any other tar
> I encountered...

GNU tar has had this for some time, too.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          na...@mips.inka.de

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