Re: How to tar a file while it's chaging

[lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de>]

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 02:47:54PM +1930, Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta wrote:
> 
> ¿There is a way to tar a file but ignore if the file is modified or may be a
> way to trunk the file?

You could exclude it from being put into the archive at all, or
exclude it but make a copy and put the copy into the archive instead
of the original.

However, I don't know what the result will be when copying a file
while it's being modified ...