On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 10:35:03AM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 10:27:09AM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: > > 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? > > xargs possibly starts tar several times and tar overwrites the archive > every time. > Even if you get tar to append to an existing archive it can't know > about hardlinked files spanning multiple calls. Ah, I see. Thanks for the explanation! --Stijn -- What would this sentence be like if it weren't self-referential?
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