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


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

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