[X-Unix] shell scripting

[Stroller]

On Jan 16, 2004, at 11:40 am, Eugene Lee wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:45:23AM +0000, Stroller wrote:
> :
> : I rather like the idea of saving the backup as a tarball - I think
> : `tar` should handle things automagically. From `man tar`:
> [...]
>
> AFAIK, tar does not save resource forks or any Mac-only metadata.

I'm sure that's troo. I've been using OS X for a year now, and I 
*still* can't get used to resource-forks. So it depends upon whether to 
OP needs to preserve them or not, I guess.

Stroller.