Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 23:05:59 -0600 From: Scott Gerhardt <scott@g-it.ca> To: 479001601@mail.ru Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Help: tar & find Message-ID: <EC1E2E7A-06A8-11D8-B94B-000393801C60@g-it.ca> In-Reply-To: <200310250833.17091.479001601@mail.ru>
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On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 10:33 PM, CBuH. wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Thursday 23 October 2003 15:34, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:43:50PM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote: > [....skipped,,,,] >> >> The problem is that you have file/directory names like 'ROOF LAYOUTS' >> which contain spaces and possibly other filenames containing >> characters with syntactic significance to the shell. >> >> Try: >> >> find $FILES_DIR -xdev -type f -iname "*.bak -print0 | \ >> xargs -0 tar --remove-files -cvzpf $TAR_DIR/bak_files_`date >> +%F`.tar.gz > > It'll have some _bad_ features: > If ``find'' will found to many files (default number of arguments to > be passed > by xargs to the ``utility'' (the tar command) is 5000, the default > size of > the command line is MAX_ARG (2048 bytes) //from man xargs), then xargs > will > run the ``utility'' twice, or more times,... consider it will be a > very small > differenses in time, you'll get that the last tar invocation 'll > replace your > archievs with that time stamp. > > IMHO. > > WBR, CBuH. > > - -- > Thanks for the response, but what would be a better solution? Thanks, -- Scott A. Gerhardt, P.Geo. Gerhardt Information Technologies
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