From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 25 13:26:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA02764 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 25 Aug 1996 13:26:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA02737 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 1996 13:26:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.225.2]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id HAA24940 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 1996 07:07:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA08854; Sun, 25 Aug 1996 10:49:46 +0200 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA12490; Sun, 25 Aug 1996 11:02:32 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies Message-Id: <199608250902.LAA12490@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: How to get tar to read input files from file? In-Reply-To: <199608250815.IAA30890@pop01.ny.us.ibm.net> from Francisco Reyes at "Aug 25, 96 04:14:15 am" To: reyes01@ibm.net Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 11:02:31 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I have a book which has a line like > tar -cvf /dev/fd0 'cat backup.list'>backup.log tar -cvf /dev/fd0 `cat backup.list`>backup.log (use the backquote character) > > 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 that didn't work either. > > Any suggestions on how to pipe a file to tar to read input files? > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de