How to archive several files with tar?

[Mark]

jik at cats.ucsc.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:

>  Actually, the worst case is that the tar file will continue to grow as tar
>writes into it, so that when tar opens that file to archive it, the file will
>grow as tar is archiving it, which means that there will be more to archive,
>etc., etc. until the disk fills up or the user exceeds his quota or the
>maximum file size or whatever.

>-- 
>Jonathan Kamens					jik at CATS.UCSC.EDU

*grin*

I did that in my early days. Something like this:

-rwx------ mark users  blah   blah   blah    753273651 zzfiles.tar

Fortunately I got bored and killed the job as I thought it had hung.
We have quota's on that machine now :)