On Saturday 21 October 2006 18:30, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 05:31:11PM +0200, Chris wrote: > > 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 " /.") > > > > ??? > > Who said so ? That you are a pain? :-) > > You are a pleasure since I know the best way to do it. :-) > > tar -cvvzf test.tar.gs ( find . -name ".*" -maxdepth 1 -type f) > > Happy? :-)
Thanks! I am glad to see that this isn't really trivial, judging from the various different responses I'm getting. I thought this could be a simple on liner, but it looks more like something one would want to save in a script. and, yes, this makes me happy in a small but significant way (if it works!!). Chris > > regards, > Girish -- C. Hurschler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
