Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:14:04 -0500 (EST) From: Dru <genisis@istar.ca> To: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Archiving large number of files Message-ID: <20011029151306.D53339-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com> In-Reply-To: <20011029145551.N51234-100000@zoraida.natserv.net>
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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? > > Tar itself handles the files ok so I have been doing several passes and > sending them to a tar file, but it takes several passes. > > One solution I am contemplating is to use find and to tar update each file > to the tar file. > > Also tried creating a file and having tar read it, but the end result on > the tar archive was larger than the files on the directory (although that > test was done by one of my co-workers). Hi Francisco, I think piping through "xargs" would do the trick. Dru To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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