[ale] passing output of command to tar via pipe

[Geoffrey]

John Wells wrote:
> I've done it before...damned if I can't get the syntax right now.  Say I
> have a process that generates a lot of output.  I want to capture that
> output and compress to a gzipped tar file with tar -zcvf.  What syntax
> would I use (bsh)?

Is this 'lot of output' data or what?  Point is, if it's data I'd 
suspect you just want to gzip it as in:

script_sending_output_2_stdout | gzip > file.gz

If it's a list of a whole bunch of files:

tar -czf file.tgz 'list of files'

I guess I don't understand the problem???

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