On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 10:03:04 -0400, "illoai at gmail.com" <illoai at gmail.com> wrote: > tar -cvf - ./ -C / > /dev/null > ? Yes, of course! But I said "lazy man's method", and lazy does only include x, c, v and f options, and -C is substituted by a cd command. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...