Tar archiving that takes input from a list of files

Question

I have a file that contain list of files I want to archive with tar. Let\'s call it mylist.txt

It contains:

file1.txt
file2.txt
...
file         


        

Answer 1

On Solaris, you can use the option -I to read the filenames that you would normally state on the command line from a file. In contrast to the command line, this can create tar archives with hundreds of thousands of files (just did that).

So the example would read

tar -cvf allfiles.tar -I mylist.txt