On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 11:33:05AM -0500, Jim Crumley wrote:
> Try:
>
> find /usr/local/sites/ -iname '.SPAM*' -exec tar cjvf {} spam_20050517.tar.bz2 \;
Do not try that, the first argument to tar is the output file.
<warning, UNTESTED>
To stretch the example, you would do
find /usr/local/sites/ -iname '.SPAM*' -exec tar cuvf spam_20050517.tar {} \;
bzip2 spam_20050517.tar
But that will still be horribly inefficient, spawning one tar process
for every file.
florin
--
Don't question authority: they don't know either!
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