Pipe Output of ls -lR into a tar archive

[Charles Curley]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 11:04:36AM -0700, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> I need help,
> 
> 	EIther google isn't finding the stuffs or my search terms are too
> muddled.
> 
> I just want to create a tar archive from a directory file listing.
> 
> something like
> 
> ls -laR ~/the/dir/to/list | tar -cvf - /tmp/tarred-dir-list.tar.gz
> 
> I can't seem to find the correct syntax

If all you want is a compressed text file with a recursive descent
listing of a given directory, why bother with tar? Try this:

ls -lR dir | gzip > lslR.gz

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