>I have some rubbish code I've inherited and don't have time to rewrite,
>which can spit out
>
> tar file1 file2 file3....
>
>where each of the file names is up to 100 chars, and there could be up
to
>2000 of them in theory.
This is what xargs is for. (Hint: use tar -r)
find glop | xargs -r tar -r archive
or maybe:
<big-assed-file xargs -r tar -r archive
Xargs' main job is to ensure that command lines don't end up 'too big',
assuming that the command can still work if split up some.
-- Jim
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