From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 23 14: 5:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E18537B401 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 14:05:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1695B43E4A for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 14:05:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68BC1327A8; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:05:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:05:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: du, find/xargs/sort, and MP3.tar In-Reply-To: <5lbs5lzndp.s5l@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <20021023170403.P6161-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 22 Oct 2002, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Peter Leftwich 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