Readers, I tried without success the following command syntax
tar --extract --file=/path/to/tarball < /path/to/list/of/files.txt To my surprise this failed. If the 'files.txt' contained: text1 text2 text3 The command syntax is successful for: tar --extract --file=/path/to/tarball text1 text2 text3 Is there a reason why redirect does not work with tar command? Thanks.
