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From: "Francisco Reyes" <reyes01@ibm.net>
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Subject: How to get tar to read input files from file?
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I have a book which has a line like
tar -cvf /dev/fd0 'cat backup.list'>backup.log

It is supposed to read the file names from a file called backup.list.
When I try it it dowsn't work. I tried also using <backup.list and
that didn't work either.

Any suggestions on how to pipe a file to tar to read input files?