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Re: making a tar file?
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Barton Lindsey <[log in to unmask]>
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Barton Lindsey <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 16 Jul 2002 02:32:03 -0500
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 Jeff Woods <[log in to unmask]> writes:

> Donna Garverick wrote (in part):
> >:print ./dgtemp
> > /SYS/PUB/DSGLIST2
> > /SYS/PUB/DSGLIST3
> > /SYS/PUB/DSGTEST
> >:tar '-cvf ./tartest' < ./dgtemp
>
[...]
> The "tar" command doesn't read a list of files from stdin; it takes them
> as arguments on the command line.
>
> If you were using the POSIX shell to invoke tar with an "indirect file"
> of pathnames to archive, you could use command substitution and "cat" to
> insert the contents of the indirect file into the command-line:
>
>         tar cvf test.tar $(cat indirect.file)
>

... or perhaps something like this might do the job:

:xargs 'tar -cvf ./tartest' < ./dgtemp

Cheers,

  Bart.

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