Re: [SLUG] Travan tapes under GNU/Linux (Debian Woody)

[mlh@xxxxxxxxxx]

On Wed, 14 May 2003 14:39:46 +1000
"Oscar Plameras" <oscarp@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > pipename=/var/run/tar-fifo-$RANDOM
> > mknod $pipename p
> > find /home -print > $pipename &
> > tar zcvf /dev/tape -T $pipename | tee tape.log
> > 
> 
> In this case we can do,
> 
> tar zcvf /dev/tape /home | tee tape.log
> 
> Can we ?

Sure; you'd only use this if you wanted to
use the other features of 'find'

Regards,

Matt