-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/21/06 10:31, Chris wrote: > On Saturday 21 October 2006 14:48, Clive Menzies wrote: >> On (21/10/06 07:23), Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 10/21/06 07:14, Clive Menzies wrote: >>>> On (21/10/06 14:01), Chris wrote: [snip] > I know, I'm being a pain, but if I want to pipe this list to tar? Something > like: > > tar -cvvzf test.tar.gz (ls -aFl grep " /.")
No pain if you have experimented first. OTOH... But I'd use du(1) instead. dots=$(du --max-depth=1 -a | cut -f2 | grep '\.\/\.' | sort) tar cvvjf dotfiles.tar.bz2 $dots - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFOkMbS9HxQb37XmcRAjDsAKDKE0FEFibT9p6aZHZgo6gZXTHQLwCgiMK2 isTWdkVyIsg5xQsuc81t4Es= =tb5s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
