Shell Programming and Scripting

hi all ,
iam trying to usr tar to read inputs from a file :
i used the following command but it is giving me an error .
tar cfv - -I files.2.backup | gzip | rsh -l some_user some_host "cat - > /path/to/destdir/backup-$DT.tar.gz"
the error is " missing files ".
the point is to read the contenets of the file "files.2.backup " and do a tar for every entry in this file. then rsh to a remote host and place my "tared" files over their.
i am runing solaris 9 over SPARC
thanks you for ur help .
regards

man tar
man gzip

e.g:
tar -cf filename.tar -I filename.list
gzip filename.tar

tar cvf - . | gzip -c > filename.tgz

. if your are in the same directory where you want to tar from.....

v option is verbose to list all the files.....

Hi.. I am trying to execute the above command in my Unix server and it throws me an error like below.. Not sure..

tar -cf filename.tar -I ~/filenames

tar: Not a recognized flag: I

I also tried using

tar cf filename.tar -I ~/filenames, which didn't work either..


The method is what i was looking out for to tar the files from the list of filenames available in ~/filenames. Could anyone help me out with a solution, please. Thanks in advance

Code:

xargs tar cf filename.tar <filenames

thanks.. but when i try to open the archive from windows, it scolds me saying "Invalid archive directory".. I also tried to open after gzip'ing it by gzip filename.tar.. but the same answer from the system

Can you read it on the machine where you created it? tar tvf filename.tar 2>&1 | less