[log in to unmask] (Dennis Handly) writes:
> Barton Lindsey ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
> : cat ./filelist | xargs tar cvf ./tarfile.tar
>
> You mean:  ;-)
>   xargs tar -cvf ./tarfile.tar < ./filelist

Yep. That's what I wrote in my original post :-)

... in the end, the two methods have the exact same outcome.

> This won't work because the last chunk of files will overwrite the
> tarfile starting at the beginning (-c).
>
> Using -rvf doesn't seem to work either (on HP-UX), even if you touch the
> file first:  Tar: blocksize = 0; broken pipe?
>
> It seems you need something there, you can put itself in itself:
> $ > ./tarfile.tar
> $ tar -cvf ./tarfile.tar ./tarfile.tar
> $ xargs tar -rvf ./tarfile.tar < ./filelist

If you're only dealing with a few (hundred) files, you should be sa

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