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Date:      Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:06:58 -0500
From:      Simon Morton <simon.morton@verizon.net>
To:        Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>
Cc:        Lucas Bergman <lucas@fivesight.com>, 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:  <3BDDD302.2040109@verizon.net>
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> $ rm tarball.tar ; find . -print0 | xargs -0 tar rf tarball.tar
> 

> would probably do the trick then.
> 
> --Stijn
> 


Wouldn't


   tar cf tarball.tar .

or

   tar cf tarball.tar dir1 dir2 dir3

be the simplest way to do it?


Simon

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