From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 29 12:25:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.mediadesign.nl (md2.mediadesign.nl [212.19.205.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E28C37B403 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 12:25:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 12889 invoked by uid 1002); 29 Oct 2001 20:25:52 -0000 From: "Alson van der Meulen" Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 21:25:51 +0100 To: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Archiving large number of files Message-ID: <20011029212551.G30280@md2.mediadesign.nl> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Questions List References: <20011029151306.D53339-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> <20011029151557.Y51329-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011029151557.Y51329-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22i 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, 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 -- ,-------------------------------------------. > Name: Alson van der Meulen < > Personal: alson@flutnet.org < > School: alson@gymnasiumleiden.nl < `-------------------------------------------' I remember the last time I saw it do that... --------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message