From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 29 14:15:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtppop1pub.verizon.net (smtppop1pub.gte.net [206.46.170.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D3E237B403 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 14:15:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from verizon.net ([199.171.52.20]) by smtppop1pub.verizon.net with ESMTP ; id QAA35158390 Mon, 29 Oct 2001 16:13:00 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3BDDD302.2040109@verizon.net> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:06:58 -0500 From: Simon Morton Reply-To: smorton@acm.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011011 X-Accept-Language: en,pdf,zh-CN,de-DE,zh-TW,zh, zh-pzõ` MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stijn Hoop Cc: Lucas Bergman , Alson van der Meulen , lists@natserv.com, FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Archiving large number of files 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> <20011029223601.A75666@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > > $ 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 -- http://www.SimonMorton.com smorton at acm dot org \rm -rf /bin/laden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message