Anyone know of a random data generator?

[Derek Martin]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 03:52:38PM -0400, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> FYI, tar interprets '-' as STDIN/STDOUT.

Only as the argument to the 'f' flag...

  $ cat intro |tar cf plah.tar -
  tar: -: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
  tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

The intended result in this case can be acheived by just leaving off
the '-' at the end.  Then tar will read its input from stdin.

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