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

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From: Marc Espie
Date: Sunday, September 23, 2007 - 3:23 pm

On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 08:53:13PM +0200, Didier Wiroth wrote:

man xargs

You probably want to override the limit with xargs -n.

But actually, since tar is recursive, you probably just want to grab first
level names and prune out distfiles and packages.

Or, if you really must figure out every filename you want to archive (say,
if you want to avoid CVS or working directories), look up tar -I.
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how can I "find xyz | xargs tar" ... like gtar, Didier Wiroth, (Sun Sep 23, 11:53 am)
Re: how can I "find xyz | xargs tar" ... like gtar, Antoine Jacoutot, (Sun Sep 23, 11:59 am)
Re: how can I "find xyz | xargs tar" ... like gtar, Mats O Jansson, (Sun Sep 23, 12:41 pm)
Re: how can I "find xyz | xargs tar" ... like gtar, Marc Espie, (Sun Sep 23, 3:23 pm)