In article <3f0d359d.1163032@news-server.tampabay.rr.com>,
Doug Burton <dburton30@hotmail.com> wrote:
>To copy files to a tarball and gzip at the same time.
>tar cvf - ? | gzip -9> filename.tar.gz
>
>NOTE:
>The question mark (?) is really supposed to be there.

Why is the question mark there? This will only get files and
subdirectories with single-character names.

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Barry Margolin, barry.margolin@level3.com
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