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Date:      Thu, 16 Nov 2000 15:26:21 +0300
From:      Igor Robul <igor@raduga.dyndns.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: argument list too long
Message-ID:  <20001116152621.A22968@linux.rainbow>
In-Reply-To: <20001116091607.A97857@sebster.com>; from sebster@sebster.com on Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 09:16:07AM %2B0100
References:  <20001116091607.A97857@sebster.com>

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Hello, 

On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 09:16:07AM +0100, Sebastiaan van Erk wrote:
> eeyore(ttypc:29:0):~> tar -czvf jsp.tgz `find . | grep 'jsp$'`
> /usr/bin/tar: Argument list too long.
I think that tar is not very good for this even on linux:
Oh, devil, it even has same error:
/home/igor# uname -a
Linux linux.rainbow 2.2.14-plus-SMP #9 SMP Чтв Мар 30 15:50:07 MSD
2000 i686 unknown
/home/igor# time tar czf test.tgz `find /usr/local `
/usr/bin/tar: Argument list too long.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^     
0.260u 0.130s 0:03.73 10.4%     0+0k 0+0io 25pf+0w
But using cpio, I prefer tar, but
sh-2.02# time find /usr/local | cpio -o 2> /dev/null | gzip >test.cpio.gz

real    1m16.543s
user    1m3.260s
sys     0m4.910s

It works :-)

-- 
Igor Roboul, Unix System Administrator & Programmer @ sanatorium "Raduga", 
Sochi, Russia
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