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Re: [Bug-tar] Tar cheats when directed to /dev/null


From: Tim Kientzle
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] Tar cheats when directed to /dev/null
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:25:06 -0700
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Phillip Susi wrote:
...I finally figured out that tar was cheating.  I was directing
the output of various backup utilities to /dev/null ...

There's an easy way to disable this particular optimization:

   tar cf - dir | cat > /dev/null






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