-myFile="/tmp/$(date +%s)..original"
-echo "how are you doing?" > "$myFile"
-myVAR="$(cat "$myFile")"
-writeArg "$myVAR" "$myFile..LOUD_CHILD" "tee /tmp/cloneityclone " "tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'"
+myTar="/tmp/$(date +%s).tar";
+try tar --create --file="$myTar" --files-from=/dev/null ;
+myVar="how are you doing?"
+appendArgTar "$myVar" "$(date +%s)..LOUD_insidetar" "$myTar" "/dev/shm" "tee /tmp/$(date +%s)..outsidetar " "tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'"