Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:18:08 -0500 (EST) From: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> To: Dru <genisis@istar.ca> Cc: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com>, FreeBSD Questions List <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Archiving large number of files Message-ID: <20011029151557.Y51329-100000@zoraida.natserv.net> In-Reply-To: <20011029151306.D53339-100000@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com>
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On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Dru wrote:
>
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Francisco Reyes wrote:
>
> > I have several directories with 20,000+ files which I need to archive. I
> > have been trying tar+Gzip, but the files are too many for tcsh to handle
> > in one pass any suggestions on how to go about this?
>
> Hi Francisco,
> I think piping through "xargs" would do the trick.
> Dru
Could you give me a quick example of how xargs work? Just looked at the
man page and didn't make much sense. Also how does this differs from what
I was thinking on doing "find . -exec tar tarname {} ';' "
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