[H-GEN] Encrypting a tar backup

[Christopher Biggs]

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Byron Ellacott <bje at apnic.net> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> 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
>

Not for values of "extremely" approaching "for" or "while", which is
the usage I had in mind.  :->

If the first command is short and simple, it's of cours an ideal place
to inject the input file.

--cjb


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