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10-11-2006

KhawHL

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How to change blocksize for in tar command

How can I change the blocksize in tar command?

tar cvf test.tar backup.sh
a backup.sh 1K

If we need to set the blocksize to 20, how to do that?

Please advise.
Thank you.

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