On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Andrew So Hong-pong wrote:
> All,
>
> I would like to write a script for backup purpose. I have a file
> which contains all the backup files list like,
>
> # cat file.lst
> ./a/foo.c
> ./b/c/voo.c
>
> At all, how can redirect this file list to perform the tar command
The tar man page reports the flag:
-T, --files-from F
get names to extract or create from file F
You could probably also do something like
tar cv `cat file.lst` > mytarfile.tar
thornton
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