How to backup with compression files selected by criteria

[Vassily Gorbounov_1]

I have:
HP-UX 10.20

I need:
To backup and compress many files.
They are selected by find (actually I need to backup files newer then some TAG
file).
And I don't want to create intermediate tar file and then gzip it.
I would like to do "TARing" and then through pipe "GZIP" it.

The problem is that I have many files find by FIND.
And the string consisting of their names is greater than could be handled by
tar.

That is ,

tar cf - `find ` | gzip -c > result

doesn't work, cause `find ` produces excessively long string.

So the questions:
1. What is a limitation of such string length?
2. What would you advice?

Thanks a lot.

[Dan Hull]

By default, the shell environment only allows an argument list of up to 20478
bytes. Try installing the following patches and then enable the kernel
parameter:

large_ncargs_enabled = 1

If the option already appears in your kernel, you probably have some version of
the required patch(es). This option increases the parameter list buffer by
ten-fold, which might be enough for your needs.

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