Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 15:21:22 -0400 (EDT) From: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca To: reyes01@ibm.net Cc: "FreeBSD questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to get tar to read input files from file? Message-ID: <199608251921.PAA01727@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
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In Email, "Francisco Reyes" <reyes01@ibm.net> wrote: > I have a book which has a line like > tar -cvf /dev/fd0 'cat backup.list'>backup.log If you look carefully at the book, you'll probably see that the line is actually tar -cvf /dev/fd0 `cat backup.list` > backup.log NOTE, the only difference is that I used backtics instead of single-quotes to quote "cat backup.list". Ie ` instead of '. To get an idea of what they do, type echo a b c echo `ls` echo * man echo > 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. Well, on the FreeBSD system, at least, this is a candidate for Randal Shcwartz's (sp!?) useless use of cat award. You can simply use: tar -cvf /dev/fd0 -T backup.list > backup.log > Any suggestions on how to pipe a file to tar to read input files? No, sorry. You can use the above stuff, though, to get a very similar effect. -- -- tIM...HOEk The opinions expressed above are mine, and if my employer shares them, that's his hard luck.
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