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$ cat mylist.txt
foo
bar
bim/bam

$ ls -alR source
source:
...
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 Roboticus None  0 Jul 21 00:48 ./
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 Roboticus None  0 Jul 21 00:51 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 Roboticus None 13 Jul 21 00:48 bam

$ ls -alR dest
dest:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 Roboticus None 0 Jul 21 00:51 ./
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 Roboticus None 0 Jul 21 00:49 ../

$ (cd source; xargs <../mylist.txt tar cf -) | (cd dest; tar xf -)

$ ls -alR dest
dest:
...
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 Roboticus None  0 Jul 21 00:52 ./
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 Roboticus None  0 Jul 21 00:52 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 Roboticus None 13 Jul 21 00:48 bam