Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 08:33:15 +0400 From: "CBuH." <479001601@mail.ru> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, Scott Gerhardt <scott@g-it.ca> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Fwd: Help: tar & find Message-ID: <200310250833.17091.479001601@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <20031023113439.GC39601@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <7F19C442-0513-11D8-8F40-000393801C60@g-it.ca> <20031023113439.GC39601@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Thursday 23 October 2003 15:34, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:43:50PM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote:
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> The problem is that you have file/directory names like 'ROOF LAYOUTS'
> which contain spaces and possibly other filenames containing
> characters with syntactic significance to the shell.
>
> Try:
>
> find $FILES_DIR -xdev -type f -iname "*.bak -print0 | \
> xargs -0 tar --remove-files -cvzpf $TAR_DIR/bak_files_`date
> +%F`.tar.gz
It'll have some _bad_ features:
If ``find'' will found to many files (default number of arguments to be pas=
sed=20
by xargs to the ``utility'' (the tar command) is 5000, the default size of=
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the command line is MAX_ARG (2048 bytes) //from man xargs), then xargs will=
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run the ``utility'' twice, or more times,... consider it will be a very sma=
ll=20
differenses in time, you'll get that the last tar invocation 'll replace yo=
ur=20
archievs with that time stamp.
IMHO.
WBR, CBuH.
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