[Nottingham] Calculating the overhead of "tar"

[Martin]

Mike Cardwell wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Robert Hart wrote:
> 
>> I don't know how much data you are sending, but this:
>>
>> tar cf /dev/null --totals ~
> 
> 
> That's perfect. Blindingly fast, even on a few hundred MB. Thank you.

Yup, all in:

"man tar"

for the lazy.

(;-))
Martin


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