Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bfmny0!tneff From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Zoo and directories Message-ID: <14683@bfmny0.UU.NET> Date: 16 Sep 89 21:57:25 GMT References: Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) Distribution: comp Organization: ^ Lines: 17 Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: In article jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) writes: >I was wondering why Zoo ignores directories passed on the command >line. I find it irritating and error-prone that Zoo ignores them >*SILENTLY*. Use the I modifier to archive directory trees. "I" means ZOO takes the list of filenames from the standard input. This is not really different from tar or cpio as they are usually used. find * -print | zoo aI sample.zoo And of course this is much more flexible if you want to selectively archive etc. -- 'We have luck only with women -- \\\ Tom Neff not spacecraft!' *-((O tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET -- R. Kremnev, builder of FOBOS \\\ uunet!bfmny0!tneff (UUCP)