On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 14:31 -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > find -iname "*.csv" | xargs tar -cvjf archive.tar.bz2
/me puts on his BOFH hat Heh, just shot down another suggestion on #utah a bit ago. Man, I'm going to have to write this on correctly soon. But still too lazy to do so. The previously suggested find -exec will work, albeit a bit slowly. The example you show is dangerous. xargs may have to run the command more than once, whacking the partially completely backup. Safer would be to stop doing a one liner. echo > backup.tar find | xargs tar Of course, the problem won't show up until your backup is large enough to make discovering the problem more potentially disastrous. -- Stuart Jansen e-mail/jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't using enough of it." - Chris Maden
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