> I've been playing with the find command lately. Is there a way I can pipe the > putput list of files from find, into the tar command to create an archive > which > contains the files which find lists? I tried the following, but it didn't work > (obviously). > > find -E . '.*\.txt$' -print | tar -cjf result.tgz
You could use something like: find -X . -name '*.txt' | xargs tar -cjf result.tgz or find . -name '*.txt' -print0 | xargs -0 tar -cjf result.tgz b. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
