Re: How to create a tar + gzip from a listing of file names.

From: Stephane CHAZELAS <this.address@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:43:33 GMT

2007-01-25, 18:56(+08), Bo Yang:
[...]

Does the following code works for you ?

tar cvf BKUPTST_$DATE.tar $(sed 's/\n/ /g' < archive.lst)

$(....) splits upon space, tabs and newlines by default and also
expands the wildcards. So you don't need to convert newlines to
spaces. You should rather make sure $(...) only splits on
newlines, and doesn't expand the wildcards:

IFS='
'
set -f

--
Stéphane
.

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- How to create a tar + gzip from a listing of file names.
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