Jon Nelson on 10 May 2005 16:10:12 -0000 |
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 ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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