Mirroring the Content of a Log File

[Joshua Oreman]

You need to shorten your From: line, man!

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 12:36:39PM +0200 or thereabouts, -- at FreeBSD.ORG seemed to write:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I have a log file containing /path/to/filenames of all my important configuration files:
> 
> # cat log.FILES.ninja
> 
>   +----- /sys/i386/conf/AEGIS
>   |
>   +----- /usr/home/johann/.tcshrc
>   +----- /usr/home/johann/.fetchmailrc
>   +----- /usr/home/johann/.gtkrc
>   +----- /usr/home/johann/.login
>   +----- /usr/home/johann/.mailcap
>   +----- /usr/home/johann/.mime.types
>   +----- /usr/home/johann/.muttrc
>   +----- /usr/home/johann/.signature
>   +----- /usr/home/johann/.xinitrc
>   +----- /usr/home/johann/.lftp/settings
>   +----- /usr/home/johann/.wine/config
> 
>   [the rest continues like that]
> 
> How do I mirror all the files and directories in this file into ~/backup?

If those directory formatting things are really in the file, and you don't have
any files with hyphens in their name:

# cat log.FILES.ninja | tr -d '+| -' | cpio -p /backup

If the directory formatting things aren't in the file:

# cat log.FILES.ninja | cpio -p /backup

Easy. You just have to know where to look :-)

-- Josh

> 
> Thanks!
> ==j
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