On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 16:08, Arun Khan <knura9 at gmail.com> wrote: >> Thanks, Jerry, I was in fact using bzip2: >> $ tar -cjf dcl-2010-12-07.tbz dcl-2010-12-07/ > > bzip2 will slow down the operation. If you don't really need > compressed than simply do "tar cf <tar file> <dir/file list>" > Yup, that's what I'm doing now! Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com