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. That's a valid point. I think kientzle is likely to be interested in adding that functionality. -MaximReceived on Fri Feb 18 2005 - 10:07:15 UTC
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