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Tar question

Edgar_10 — Mon, 07 Jul 2003 09:28:04 GMT

Hi,

I have a directory with approx.200000 files and would like to tar all to 1 file before copying to tape drive.My tar command fails stating that argument list too long.Any ideas on a work around?

Regards,

Re: Tar question

Stefan Farrelly — Mon, 07 Jul 2003 09:34:50 GMT

use xargs first, eg. in the dir with the 200k files;

ls | xargs tar cf

Re: Tar question

twang — Mon, 07 Jul 2003 09:36:10 GMT

# tar cvf /tmp/dir.tar /dir
# tar cvf /dev/rmt/1m /tmp/dir.tar

Re: Tar question

Bruno Vidal — Mon, 07 Jul 2003 09:38:07 GMT

Hi
Your tar command is failing because you are using "tar cvf /tmp/myfile *" . Instead do:
"tar cvf /tmp/myfile . "
(in the case of * the shell replace * by all the files -> your command line is too long), replace it by ., and tar while be executed on the file ., -> ie all files of this directory.

Cheers.

Re: Tar question

T G Manikandan — Mon, 07 Jul 2003 09:51:06 GMT

check this link

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xd4ce5a3e6e0bd6118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html