From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 29 12:19:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from koza.acecape.com (koza2.acecape.com [66.9.36.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2573037B407 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 12:19:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from p65-147.acedsl.com (p65-147.acedsl.com [66.114.65.147]) by koza.acecape.com (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f9TKJOo00522; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:19:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:18:08 -0500 (EST) From: Francisco Reyes X-X-Sender: fran@zoraida.natserv.net To: Dru Cc: Francisco Reyes , FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Archiving large number of files In-Reply-To: <20011029151306.D53339-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> Message-ID: <20011029151557.Y51329-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Dru wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Francisco Reyes wrote: > > > I have several directories with 20,000+ files which I need to archive. I > > have been trying tar+Gzip, but the files are too many for tcsh to handle > > in one pass any suggestions on how to go about this? > > Hi Francisco, > I think piping through "xargs" would do the trick. > Dru Could you give me a quick example of how xargs work? Just looked at the man page and didn't make much sense. Also how does this differs from what I was thinking on doing "find . -exec tar tarname {} ';' " To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message