[TriLUG] create tar file from stdin

[Ben Coughenour]

Do you mean create a tar file that contains all the files who's names 
are listed on stdin?  If so xargs is your friend. 

ls | xargs tar -cf myfile.tar

Matthew Opoka wrote:
> Anyone know of a way to read stdin with tar and create a tar file?
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> Regards,
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> Matthew
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