[ale] passing output of command to tar via pipe

[fletch at phydeaux.org (Fletch)]

>>>>> "John" == John Wells <jb at sourceillustrated.com> writes:

    John> I've done it before...damned if I can't get the syntax right
    John> now.  Say I have a process that generates a lot of output.
    John> I want to capture that output and compress to a gzipped tar
    John> file with tar -zcvf.  What syntax would I use (bsh)?

Having a tarball of just one file is kinda useless . . . but


tar zcf fooble.tar.gz <( make_gobs --of output ) 


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