From: Aaron W Morris (aaronmorris@MINDSPRING.COM)
Date: Thu Dec 12 2002 - 18:08:42 EST
You cannot read tar files from stdin with "tar"...you would have to use
pax.
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 11:40, Holger.VanKoll@SWISSCOM.COM wrote:
> Hello,
>
> can I do this with pipes?
>
> uncompress $file
> tar -rf $file some files
> compress $file
>
> I dont see any way to tell tar to read a tar-archive from stdin AND
> write it to stdout.
>
> Regards,
>
> Holger
>
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