Stian Jordet wrote:

First, I can't get it to work at all:

cat /etc/apt/sources.list|tar -cf test.tar
tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive
Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information.

If you check 'tar --help' you'll see this is not correct usage of tar. Don't use standard in, but just specify file names as arguments:

$ tar -cf test.tar /etc/apt/sources.list

Nils Breunese.

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