back2roots/padua/padua.7z/padua/lang/perl4.035.V010.lzh/perl4.035/eg/findtar

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#!/usr/bin/perl

# $Header: findtar,v 4.0 91/03/20 01:09:48 lwall Locked $

# findtar takes find-style arguments and spits out a tarfile on stdout.
# It won't work unless your find supports -ls and your tar the I flag.

$args = join(' ',@ARGV);
open(find,"/usr/bin/find $args -ls |") || die "Can't run find for you.";

open(tar,"| /bin/tar cIf - -") || die "Can't run tar for you: $!";

while (<find>) {
    @x = split(' ');
    if ($x[2] =~ /^d/) { print tar '-d ';}
    print tar $x[10],"\n";
}