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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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Wed, 17 Jul 2002 02:17:03 -0500
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 [log in to unmask] writes:
> How about
>    cat ./filelist | tar cvf ./tarfile.tar -

You'd still need xargs to grab the contents of filelist (the list of
files to go into the tarball) and pass them as parameters to tar. ie.

cat ./filelist | xargs tar cvf ./tarfile.tar

Cheers,

  Bart.

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