RE: [Bug-tar] Information regarding TAR

[Peter Breitenlohner]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Akshay Bajpai wrote:

From: Sergey Poznyakoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Please let me know about:
1)      The limitation for the maximum number of input files to be
tarred

None.

From your original mail I see that you use "tar -cf <TAR-FILE.tar> *.pdf",

and when your shell expands the "*.pdf" this may well exceed the maximum
command line length allowed by you operating system.

pb