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Re: how can I "find xyz | xargs tar" ... like gtar

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To: Didier Wiroth <didier.wiroth@...>
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Date: Sunday, September 23, 2007 - 3:41 pm

On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Didier Wiroth wrote:

When I started to do backup many years ago it was a find piped to cpio.

so i think you could replace the xargs tar with some variant of
cpio -o -H ustar which should generate a tar archive. 

but i havn't tested... So look at the switches for cpio.

-moj

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how can I "find xyz | xargs tar" ... like gtar, Didier Wiroth, (Sun Sep 23, 2:53 pm)
Re: how can I "find xyz | xargs tar" ... like gtar, Marc Espie, (Sun Sep 23, 6:23 pm)
Re: how can I "find xyz | xargs tar" ... like gtar, Han Boetes, (Sun Sep 23, 3:23 pm)
Re: how can I "find xyz | xargs tar" ... like gtar, Mats O Jansson, (Sun Sep 23, 3:41 pm)
Re: how can I "find xyz | xargs tar" ... like gtar, Antoine Jacoutot, (Sun Sep 23, 2:59 pm)
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