Re: tar/cpio data read from pipe?
From: Daniel Zepeda <zepeda_at_am51.wg.waii.com>
Date: 1995/11/02
Message-ID: <ZEPEDA.95Nov2084222_at_am51.wg.waii.com>#1/1
Date: 1995/11/02
Message-ID: <ZEPEDA.95Nov2084222_at_am51.wg.waii.com>#1/1
In article <478j83$6d5_at_homer.alpha.net> dev_dp_at_mfa.com (Dave Plonka) writes:
>Can be mapped to the use of either tar or cpio? Both of these seem to
>require a filenames...
tar and cpio definitely don't need filenames. I believe that cpio's default input is standard input, tar can take standard input by specifiy "-" as the filename argument.
At least that's how it works on AIX and SunOS.
Dan
-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Daniel Paul Zepeda Western Geophysical Applied Technology Software - Testing e-mail: <daniel.zepeda_at_waii.com>Received on Thu Nov 02 1995 - 00:00:00 CET