[H-GEN] Encrypting a tar backup

[Byron Ellacott]

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On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 16:01, Christopher Biggs wrote:
> 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

The usual counterargument is

extremely inputfile | long | shell | oneliner > outputfile

I don't much mind which way you do it, to be honest.  On a slow system I
prefer to invoke as few programs as few times as possible, though ;)

-- 
bje

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