Where does the list of files come from?  It is common practice to "front end"
cpio with a find command - would this be possible in your application.

Richard

Rudderow, Evan wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> What the unix equivalent of message files?
>
> We've got a procedure right now that (this is on Solaris 2.6) invokes
> cpio multiple times to backup some files to tape, but each time we
> invoke cpio we get another archive on tape - we'd like to put everything
> in one archive.  SO what we'd like to do is write the names to a
> "message" file and simply have cpio sitting on the message file for the
> reads to complete.
>
> So far the best we've come up with if to have cpio read the output of a
> "tail -f" of the file, but there's got to be something better.
>
> TIA
>
> Evan

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