Hello all. When I create tar and add each file (tar -uvf) ,if there are many files and the TAR is very big ( > 400Mo > 50 000 files ) there is a performence problem (4 days). To optimize,I i accumulate all files in a directory and make only 1 tar on the directory (performence is PERFECT). the problem is the final TAR contain a DOT or the current directory. Exemple : parentdir (or .) subdir/toto.txt subdir/titi.txt tata.txt Can someone help to create TAR on a directory wihtout inclusion of DOT please ? Or a command to remove it in the big file, can help too. Thanks you in advance for your help Yannis pyannis@chez.com

Hello, It s OK now . I make a list in a temporary file with find (without DOT), and make the tar with listfile as parameter Example: cd BIG_DIR find . ! -name "." > ../l.txt tar -cvf ../BIG_DIR.tar -L ../l.txt