Thanks Denys, that will fix tar.. if I have other situations I can use xargs.
TVM D In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Denys Vlasenko) wrote: > *From:* Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected], [email protected] > *CC:* [email protected] > *Date:* Sun, 30 Jan 2011 06:53:49 +0100 > > On Friday 28 January 2011 19:26, David Collier wrote: > > Is there any explicit limit on the size of command like busybox > > can swing > > round it's head? > > > > 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. > > > > I can change the limits to keep it all under 64 k or whatever... > > but is > > there a magic number even smaller than that I should beware of? > > > > A MOMENT LATER > > > > I think I can tame this by suitable use of relative paths, but > > I'd still > > be interested to know > > # busybox tar --help > BusyBox v1.18.0 (2010-11-23 00:11:12 CET) multi-call binary. > > Usage: tar -[cxtzjaZmvO] [-X FILE] [-f TARFILE] [-C DIR] [FILE]... > > Create, extract, or list files from a tar file > > Operation: > c Create > x Extract > t List > Options: > f Name of TARFILE ('-' for stdin/out) > C Change to DIR before operation > v Verbose > z (De)compress using gzip > j (De)compress using bzip2 > a (De)compress using lzma > Z (De)compress using compress > O Extract to stdout > h Follow symlinks > m Don't restore mtime > exclude File to exclude > X File with names to exclude > T File with names to include > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > -- > vda > _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
