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Quoting Stephen Gran <steve@lobefin.net>:
> On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 11:08:39PM -0400, Mark M. Hoffman said:
> > * 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:
>
> Just use expansion:
> tar $options test.tar $(find ../dir1/)
>
> Right?
If you have a lot of files generated by the find command you'll run into
command line length limits. (On some UNIX systems [though hopefull not
too many modern ones] the limit could be as low as 255 characters!) The
exact limit depends on OS, shell, and compilation options for both. I
think it's at least 32k for bash on Linux, but you could still hit that
if, say, you were using tar for a backup script.
Hm, not sure where to check to find the exact value without mucking around
in source. Anyone know offhand?
pls
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