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Instead of giving the names of files or archive members on the command
line, you can put the names into a file, and then use the
--files-from=file-of-names (-T file-of-names) option to tar. Give the name of the file
which contains the list of files to include as the argument to
`--files-from'. In the list, the file names should be separated by
newlines. You will frequently use this option when you have generated
the list of files to archive with the find utility.
If you give a single dash as a file name for `--files-from', (i.e., you specify either `--files-from=-' or `-T -'), then the file names are read from standard input.
Unless you are running tar with `--create', you can not use
both `--files-from=-' and `--file=-' (`-f -') in the same
command.
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The following example shows how to use find to generate a list of
files smaller than 400K in length and put that list into a file
called `small-files'. You can then use the `-T' option to
tar to specify the files from that file, `small-files', to
create the archive `little.tgz'. (The `-z' option to
tar compresses the archive with gzip; see section Creating and Reading Compressed Archives for
more information.)
$ find . -size -400 -print > small-files $ tar -c -v -z -T small-files -f little.tgz
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