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In about 40 years of using Unix I have never used r or u.



both seem fairly important in the 40-years-ago world concerning the 't'(ape) part of tar but okay.

I use them frequently as an "rsync"-ish into the archive file, which I can then use to take point-in-time snapshot/backups.




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