Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:05:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com> Cc: FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: du, find/xargs/sort, and MP3.tar Message-ID: <20021023170403.P6161-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <5lbs5lzndp.s5l@localhost.localdomain>
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On 22 Oct 2002, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> writes: > > Then I thought I'd get crafty and `tar tvf MP3.DONE0415021909MPT.tar > > > the-tarfile.out` thinking I could later run things through `sort` but I am > > hung up on how to get similar output that shows the contents of MP3/. > tar cf - MP3/ | tar tvf - >the-mp3dir.out Could someone step through what this is doing? I thought you could use "-" (stdin?) only once on a command line. My question was more about using less CPU time with something simiar to "find" or `ls -alR | sort` -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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