Re: [PLUG] Tutorials

[Stephen Gran <steve@lobefin.net>]

On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 11:08:39PM -0400, Mark M. Hoffman said:
> Hi Jon:
> 
> * Jon Nelson <quincy@linuxnotes.net> [2005-05-06 15:14:57 -0400]:
> > Sure it can and so can any other command with 'xargs':
> > 
> >     $ find ../dir1/ | cpio -o --format=tar > test.tar
> > 
> > would be:
> > 
> >     $ find ../dir1/ | xargs tar cvf test.tar
> 
> Ugh, no.  The xargs man page says:

Just use expansion:
tar $options test.tar $(find ../dir1/)

Right?
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