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How can I pipe information into tar specifying the names of the file?
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tar cannot read in file data from stdin for creating an archive, since then tar will have no way of knowing what a file is - where one begins or ends, what its path and metadata is.
Use the tarfile module to create a zip archive of a directory. Walk the directory tree using os. walk and add all the files in it recursively.
Something like:
tar cfz foo.tgz --files-from=- But keep in mind that this won't work for all possible filenames; you should consider the --null option and feed tar from find -print0. (The xargs example won't quite work for large file lists because it will spawn multiple tar commands.)
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