[afnog] tar: Concatenate / Create from STDIN?

[Brian Candler]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 06:24:29PM +0300, Begumisa Gerald M wrote:
>       On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Brian Candler wrote:
>     > The traditional utility which works this way is cpio. With the
>     > appropriate flags you can make it create output which is compatible
>     > with tar.
> 
> Wow.  I think that's what am looking for.  :-)

It goes to show - ask the right question and you'll get the right answer
faster :-)

Wrong question: "is there a way to concatenate one tar file with another
- where the second tar file comes from standard input?"

Right question: "I am trying to tar up a large number of files and
directories, using 'find' to identify all files and directories changed
within the last N days. Unfortunately the number of arguments to tar is too
large. As a workaround I am creating separate tar files each containing one
file or directory, and then using tar -A to join each piece onto the end of
an existing tarfile. Is there a better way to achieve this?"

Regards,

Brian.