Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 12:37:35 +0100 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: Modulok <modulok@gmail.com> Cc: bf1783@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Piping find into tar... Message-ID: <BANLkTikXanew=uFHVC0ys=Ep97Kn%2BwV1VA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 4 May 2011 10:42, "Modulok" <modulok@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> By the way, in reference to the commands above the -j option is for > bzip2, so the extension should be .tbz o_O > > Thanks everyone! I went with the following, because it works regardless of > space characters in filenames. (Thanks for the correction on the extenion. It > should indeed be 'tbz' when using the 'j' flag.) > > find -E . -regex '.*\.txt$' -print0 | xargs -0 tar -cjf result.tbz > > As for pax, I thought tar could create pax archives too, via the --format pax > option? Pax makes tar by default-- It's a great way to make tars with cpio syntax. > > Cheers Everyone! > -Modulok-
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