Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 21:25:51 +0100 From: "Alson van der Meulen" <alson@flutnet.org> To: FreeBSD Questions List <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Archiving large number of files Message-ID: <20011029212551.G30280@md2.mediadesign.nl> In-Reply-To: <20011029151557.Y51329-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> References: <20011029151306.D53339-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> <20011029151557.Y51329-100000@zoraida.natserv.net>
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On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 03:18:08PM -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> 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 {} ';' "
find .|xargs tar cf tarball.tar
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I remember the last time I saw it do that...
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