Tar archiving that takes input from a list of files

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I have a file that contain list of files I want to archive with tar  Let s call it mylist txt  It contains   file1 txt file2 txt     file10 txt   Is there a way I can issue TAR command that takes mylist txt as input  Something like  tar -cvf allfiles tar - someoption   mylist txt   So that it is similar as if I issue this command   tar -cvf allfiles tar file1 txt file2 txt file10 txt

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Assuming GNU tar  as this is Linux   the -T or --files-from option is what you want

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Some versions of tar  for example  the default versions on HP-UX  I tested 11 11 and 11 31   do not include a command line option to specify a file list  so a decent work-around is to do this   tar cvf allfiles tar   cat mylist txt

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Yes   tar -cvf allfiles tar -T mylist txt

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You can also pipe in the file names which might be useful    find  path to files -name    txt   tar -cvf allfiles tar -T -

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On Solaris  you can use the option -I to read the filenames that you would normally state on the command line from a file  In contrast to the command line  this can create tar archives with hundreds of thousands of files  just did that    So the example would read  tar -cvf allfiles tar -I mylist txt

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For me on AIX  it worked as follows   tar -L List txt -cvf BKP tar

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