How can I build a tar from stdin?

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Something like:

tar cfz foo.tgz --files-from=-

But keep in mind that this won’t work for all possible filenames; you should consider the --null option and feed tar from find -print0. (The xargs example won’t quite work for large file lists because it will spawn multiple tar commands.)

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