Create/Extract a tar file using contents of a file

If you want to create a tar that contains only files specified in a file you can use the -T option. Example: [bcane@bcane play]$ cat list.txt 1.txt 2.txt 3.txt [bcane@bcane play]$ tar -cvzf files.tgz -T list.txt 1.txt 2.txt 3.txt [bcane@bcane play]$ tar -tvzf files.tgz -rw-rw-r-- bcane/bcane 0 2011-07-13 16:48 1.txt -rw-rw-r-- bcane/bcane 0 2011-07-13 16:48 2.txt -rw-rw-r-- bcane/bcane 0 2011-07-13 16:48 3.txt -T will work for both creation and extraction of tar files....

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