Arrgh. More Linux/Solaris incompatibilities. Seems as though the -I flag (include files listed in a file) on Linux is not supported. In fact, it gives you a nice error message "Warning: the -I option is not supported; perhaps you meant -j or -T?". Looks like I'll be twiddling with my .profile in the next couple of days...
Update: My boss pointed out -T works with Solaris and Linux. Doh.
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And if you want to pass a list of files to tar via pipe - convenient hen you're doing for example a find - then you can use this, also portable:
find . -type f (whatever filter) -print|tar -cv -b8 -f (whatever pathname for output tar file) -T -
It seems to work fine in both our Loonix and Solaris boxes.
I had to use () to indicate the optionality, of course they don't get typed.
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