Re: [PLUG] Tutorials

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 11:18:47PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
>   [24 lines, 114 words, 835 characters]  Top characters: -nae\nor.
> 
> 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/)

Is there any difference at all between

    tar $options test.tar $(find ../dir1/)

and

    tar $options test.tar `find ../dir1/`

?

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 Jeff

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