[ale] Bash question: | in find

[mpdickens at tlanta.com (Marvin Dickens)]

On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 18:53, Joe wrote:

> find /cdrom/slackware -name "*.tgz" -exec tar tzvf {} | grep Xaw3d \; -print

To the best of my knowledge (Others on this list may know of a way to do
it...) you cannot send the output of "find" to "tar" and expect anything
useful to happen. However, I know from experience that if you write the
output from "find" to a text file first and then use "tar" with the -T
option to read the name of the file you want to extract (From the text
file...) it will work.



Best

Marvin Dickens 

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