On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 09:36:40AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Steve Kargl <sgk_at_troutmask.apl.washington.edu> writes: > > find $PATH -newermt 20050214 | xargs tar cf new.tar > > Bad idea, for a number of different reasons (including file names > containing spaces or other special characters, and command line length > limits). The following is slightly better, but will still fail if you > have files with newlines in them: > > find $PATH -newermt 2005-02-14 | tar -c -f new.tar -T/dev/stdin Won't find -print0 | xargs -0 ... work in all cases? --Stijn -- I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called `brightness', but it doesn't work." -- Gallagher
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