Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 11:02:31 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: reyes01@ibm.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to get tar to read input files from file? Message-ID: <199608250902.LAA12490@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199608250815.IAA30890@pop01.ny.us.ibm.net> from Francisco Reyes at "Aug 25, 96 04:14:15 am"
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> 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 <backup.list and > 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
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