What I usually do is take advantage of cpio's ability to output in tar format [--format=tar]. I then use find (and grep if needed) to send my list of files through standard-in to cpio. That works better for me, anyways... Ron On 8/2/05, Mike Hicks <hick0088 at tc.umn.edu> wrote: > Heh, it's worth noting that we're talking about at least two, and > possibly three different upstream versions of tar here, and each of them > probably has distro-specific patches added on to that.