From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 25 00:05:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA28662 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 Dec 1997 00:05:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from ncnatural.com (ncnatural.com [192.41.49.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA28649 for ; Thu, 25 Dec 1997 00:05:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nickh@ncnatural.com) Received: from ol-bitchy.wierdorama (pm25-4-103.hp.infi.net [208.142.82.103]) by ncnatural.com (8.8.5) id DAA17264; Thu, 25 Dec 1997 03:05:27 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: ncnatural.com: Host pm25-4-103.hp.infi.net [208.142.82.103] claimed to be ol-bitchy.wierdorama Message-ID: <34A21348.647C@ncnatural.com> Date: Thu, 25 Dec 1997 03:03:20 -0500 From: Nick Holshouser X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Shawn Ramsey CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tar ?? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk just use the shell.... you have your list web.list - then use csh (or tcsh) {1} foreach i (`cat web.list`) ? tar -rvf web.tar $i ? end the -r switch appends to an existing tar file and might just create one if it doesn't already exist.... If you then do a tar -tvf on web.tar you should get output that looks just like web.list ! -- Nick Holshouser nickh@ncnatural.com http://NCNatural.com North Carolina's #1 Web Resource