Re: Pipe to tar or other compressor
Daniel Lawson <[email protected]>
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> mysqldump {opts} | tar -cf --lzma - > outfile.7z
>
> doesnt work because tar expects a directory
>
> two steps works for the last method , but this is linux it must be
> doable in one step?
tar --lzma -cf - <(mysq;dump ${opts} ) > outfile.7z
This opens up a named pipe, with the output of mysqldump being piped
through it. tar sees this as a filedescriptor it can open.
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