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- Submitted-by: mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell)
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- In article <1luic5INNqhk@ftp.UU.NET> karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish) writes:
- >You might like to take a look at GNU cpio, which provides
- >both cpio formats. This program also allows you to
- >make tar archives using a list of file names on stdin.
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- So does GNU tar. Use `--files-from -'. (Of course, if the list is
- small enough to fit in the args, you can also do:
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- generate file names | (tar `cat`)
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- Stdin for things in backticks is the stdin of the shell; the parens
- make the subshell's input be the pipe, so everything works.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 30, Number 66
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