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From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>
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Subject: Re: Archiving large number of files
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On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 05:06:58PM -0500, Simon Morton wrote:
> > 
> > $ 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?

I agree that this is a simpler way to tar up a single directory, or a few
directories; I believe the original poster had to specify a lot of things
to backup. That's when the find | xargs answer came up.

Of course, if all files are located under a single directory you're better
off using your method.

--Stijn

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