Jon Nelson on 10 May 2005 16:10:12 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Tutorials


Michael C. Toren said:
> On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 10:16:35AM -0400, Jon Nelson wrote:
>> That's why I mentioned '-print0' in my first post.  I believe this would
>> take care of the above:
>>
>>     $ find ../dir1/ -print0 | xargs --null tar cvf test.tar
>
> In addition to the points Paul made, when using find's very useful -print0
> command line argument, you'll also want to use xargs's corresponding -0
> command line argument.

'--null' is the same as '-0'

Jon

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