[H-GEN] Encrypting a tar backup

[Christopher Biggs]

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Jason Parker-Burlingham <jasonp at uq.net.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

>
> Boy, I'd love to give a talk on the almost complete uselessness of
> cat(1).  Book me for next time I'm in town.

Granted that "cat file | pipeline" is a no-op, I *still* do it fairly
often because I like to compose my shellscripts with my thoughts in
order, rather than

     extremely ; long ; shell ; oneliner < inputfile >outputfile

--cjb




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