Jeff Woods ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: The "tar" command doesn't read a list of files from stdin; it takes them
: as arguments on the command line.

cpio reads from stdin.

: "cat" to insert the contents of the indirect file into the command-line:
:         tar cvf test.tar $(cat indirect.file)

Never ever use cat for this, unless you want to copy from a file to file.
Or combine several files.  Just use "<":
          tar -cvf test.tar $(< indirect.file)

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