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Old 05-12-2015
Help with Tar command needed
Lets say I have 100 files. in those files I need to search specific word and I want to tar all those files at once. how can I do that?
Code:
tar -cvf test.tar |grep house *.*

Will it work?



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Old 05-12-2015
No, you need a list of files with the word house in them rather than the "normal" grep output, also you need to provide the filenames as arguments to the tar command...

Code:
tar -cvf test.tar $(grep -l house *.*)

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Old 05-28-2015
many thanks to all
 
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