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From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: help! tar archive paradox
Message-ID: <1991Jun15.150346.24206@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
Date: 15 Jun 91 15:03:46 GMT
References: <1991Jun11.173147.3324@cirrus.com>
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
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In article <1991Jun11.173147.3324@cirrus.com>, dhesi@cirrus.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:

> Help!  I want to make a tar archive that contains all tar archives
> that do not contain themselves.  Is there a command option that will
> do this?  Thanks!!

Isn't that the -russell option to GNU tar?

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