On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > from binary files which i have listed in file man tar Have a look at the --files-from (T) option. tar cvzTf list-here new-tar-ball-here.tar.gz Or try: tar cvzf new-tar-ball-here.tar.gz `cat list-here` # if no spaces in filenames Jeremy C. Reed http://bsd.reedmedia.net/