Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:07:11 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Cc: FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: du, find/xargs/sort, and MP3.tar Message-ID: <20021024100711.GC29294@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> In-Reply-To: <20021023170403.P6161-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> References: <5lbs5lzndp.s5l@localhost.localdomain> <20021023170403.P6161-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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# Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com / 2002-10-23 17:05:48 -0400:
> On 22 Oct 2002, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> > Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> writes:
> > > Then I thought I'd get crafty and
> > > `tar tvf MP3.DONE0415021909MPT.tar > the-tarfile.out` thinking I
> > > could later run things through `sort` but I am hung up on how to
> > > get similar output that shows the contents of MP3/.
> > tar cf - MP3/ | tar tvf - >the-mp3dir.out
>
> Could someone step through what this is doing? I thought you could use "-"
> (stdin?) only once on a command line.
the first tar sends the tarball to stdout, the second reads it from
stdin. your shell connect those two together.
> My question was more about using less CPU time with something simiar
> to "find" or `ls -alR | sort`
the output of `ls -alR` is not suitable for what you want.
`tar tvf` with find(1) is your best bet.
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