Re: GNU Tar on Windows XP

[Bob Proulx]

Gadrin wrote:
> guess I got carried away with this from the manual:
> 
> $ find dir tests | \
>   tar -cf archive -T - --no-recursion

That is even better.  *I* didn't know about the -T option.  It is not
in the traditional legacy tar but is a cool GNU extension.  The "-" in
this case is a traditional name for stdin/stdout.  So this does read
the file list from stdin.

Bob