Hi ! Sorry to bother this list with my question, but my brain seems to have gone off line :-( I'm playing around with tar a bit and I just can't make it work :-( I would lake to take the output of one command pipe it to the input oftar to genereate a file like test.tar.gz. If I could add a date to the file, it would be really great. I've been trying someting like "ls -lR /etc | tar -czf test.tar.gz -", "ls -lR /etc < tar -czf test.tar.gz -", "tar -czf test.tar.gz < ls -lR /etc" without success. Hope for help, /Jocke!