Tristan Miller <psychon...@nothingisreal.com> wrote: > Greetings. > > On Wed, 6 Dec 2017 15:44:02 -0600, Peng Yu > <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am not sure how to use -l. > > Not -l (lowercase L), but -I (uppercase i). The argument to -I is the > compression program you want to use, along with its arguments. So you > probably want something like -I="gzip -n".
Just note that this is not portable.... from "man tar": -I include-file Opens include-file containing a list of files, one per line, and treats it as if each file appeared separately on the command line. Be careful of trailing white spaces. Also beware of leading white spaces, since, for each line in the included file, the entire line (apart from the newline) is used to match against the initial string of files to include. In the case where excluded files (see X function modifier) are also specified, they take precedence over all included files. If a file is specified in both the exclude-file and the include-file (or on the command line), it is excluded. This exist since aprox. 35 years. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sf.net/projects/schilytools/files/'