 | | | Large number of files in single directory | Large number of files in single directory 2005-05-25 - By Stephen Carville
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Rigler, Stephen C. wrote:
> I think you want to use the "-A" switch to append (concatenate) files to
> an archive. Look at "man tar". I'm not sure if this works with
> compressed (gzip'd) archives though, so you might need to compress after
> the tar is done.
Oops! That should be
$ sudo find <directory> -exec tar -rvf foo.tar {} \;
-r means add files to the end of an archive. -A is to concatenate two
tar files.
> -Steve
>
> On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 11:51 -0700, Chris wrote:
>
>>-- -- Original Message -- --
>>From: "Stephen Carville" <stephen@(protected)>
>>Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 10:50 AM
>>Subject: Re: Large number of files in single directory
>>
>>
>>>Try:
>>>
>>>$ find <directory> -exec tar -avf foo.tar {} \;
>>
>>Didn't work. The -a is an invalid option on Fedora, it seems. I replaced
>>it with -cz to create and compress the tar file, but even with that, it goes
>>through the list of files (lists them one per line) as if it was actually
>>taring them, but the resulting .tar file only has the very LAST file that
>>tar listed - and nothing else in it. :-?
>>
>>Chris
>>
>>
>
>
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