Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 09:16:07 +0100 From: Sebastiaan van Erk <sebster@sebster.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: argument list too long Message-ID: <20001116091607.A97857@sebster.com>
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Hello people, When I try tar a couple of files I get the following error. In fact, I get the same error quite frequently when I use find to generate an argument list. Is there a NICE way to work around old archaic DOS-like things like argument lists which are too long? eeyore(ttypc:29:0):~> tar -czvf jsp.tgz `find . | grep 'jsp$'` /usr/bin/tar: Argument list too long. I tried this on Linux, and IT has no problems with this. I always advocate FreeBSD, but how can I explain this to people I'm trying to convert ;-) I used to always cuss at Solaris when fmt truncated lines at 1024 characters (kind of defeats the purpose of fmt, doesn't it). But this is almost as bad! Greetings, Sebastiaan van Erk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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