>Well, that is better but still won't work. Find produces a list of >directories okay but tar doesn't have code to read them from stdin.
ah ! thanks. okay I piped FIND's output to a .txt file and used -T Top-Dir.txt as the input and thar she blows ! Extract works. I thought tar could read from stdin. guess I got carried away with this from the manual: $ find dir tests | \ tar -cf archive -T - --no-recursion Okay, I've got 2 work-arounds.
