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From: jayavant@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Rajeev Jayavant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: tar not working as advertised
Message-ID: <17450009@hpfcdj.HP.COM>
Date: 20 Sep 90 19:16:34 GMT
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    The find(1) instruction on its own is OK, as

  find / -local ! -type d -mtime -7 -type f -print > backuplist

works.  But then

  cat backuplist | tar ca-

still doesn't work, even though backuplist has hundreds of entries.

    What am I doing wrong?  All advice appreciated...

    Hugh Cartwright.  Physical Chemistry,  Oxford.
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According to the man page, there should be a space between the ca and
the -, i.e.:  cat backuplist | tar ca -

The IRIX version of tar is the only one I've used that reads filenames
from standard input.  Certainly seems to make more sense than the
standard "tar ca `cat backuplist`" when backuplist contains a very
large number of files.
							Rajeev
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