Re: [Help-tar] problem when redirecting tar output.

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

shreyas waghmare <address@hidden> ha escrit:

>    I actually want to monitor time required for tar to read all files in
>    given hierarchy and do not want it to create archive, so i redirected
>    output to /dev/zero,
[...]
>    Is this the correct way to do? Will i get correct time reading which i
>    intend to take?

Basicall, yes.  But note, that the actual archivation will take a bit
longer, because writing to /dev/zero is faster than to any actual disk
file.

Regards,
Sergey