Paul L. Snyder on 10 May 2005 03:18:09 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Tutorials


Quoting "Mark M. Hoffman" <mhoffman@lightlink.com>:

> * Jon Nelson <quincy@linuxnotes.net> [2005-05-06 15:14:57 -0400]:
> > 
> >     $ find ../dir1/ | xargs tar cvf test.tar
> 
> Ugh, no.  The xargs man page says:
[...]
> If you use xargs with tar that way (on a big enough directory tree)
> you will end up missing files.

It's on the right track.  Try:

   find ../dir1/ | xargs tar rvf test.tar

pls
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