Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 22:36:01 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: Lucas Bergman <lucas@fivesight.com> Cc: Alson van der Meulen <alson@flutnet.org>, lists@natserv.com, FreeBSD Questions List <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Archiving large number of files Message-ID: <20011029223601.A75666@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <15325.52042.88160.224542@apu.five.sight>; from lucas@fivesight.com on Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 03:34:02PM -0600 References: <20011029151306.D53339-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> <20011029151557.Y51329-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> <20011029212551.G30280@md2.mediadesign.nl> <15325.52042.88160.224542@apu.five.sight>
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On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 03:34:02PM -0600, Lucas Bergman wrote:
> Alson van der Meulen wrote:
> > Francisco Reyes wrote:
> > > Dru wrote:
> > > > 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?
> > > >
> > > > I think piping through "xargs" would do the trick.
> > >
> > > Could you give me a quick example of how xargs work?
> >
> > find .|xargs tar cf tarball.tar
>
> Careful. If xargs has to spawn more than one 'tar' process, then this
> is going to overwrite tarball.tar.
Good one, never thought of that.
> Better to do
>
> $ rm tarball.tar
> $ find . | xargs tar rf tarball.tar
>
> N.B.: this assumes there are no files or directories with whitespace
> in their names.
$ rm tarball.tar ; find . -print0 | xargs -0 tar rf tarball.tar
would probably do the trick then.
--Stijn
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