On Wednesday 23 March 2005 04:19 pm, Lonnie Olson wrote: > On Mar 23, 2005, at 3:40 PM, Stuart Jansen wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 15:30 -0700, Nicholas Leippe wrote: > >> What's wrong with one-liners? Why not: > >> > >> f=.$RANDOM; mkfifo $f; find -iname '*.csv' > $f & \ > >> tar -T $f -cjf archive.tar.bz2 && rm $f > > or you can do without the fifo altogether. > > find -iname '*.csv' | tar -T - -cjf archive.tar.bz2 > > the "-T -" means that it will retrieve a list of files to backup from > stdin.
I looked for that option for -T and didn't find it anywhere in the docs. Didn't think to just try it. -- Respectfully, Nicholas Leippe Sales Team Automation, LLC 1335 West 1650 North, Suite C Springville, UT 84663 +1 801.853.4090 http://www.salesteamautomation.com .===================================. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `==================================='
