Victor Duchovni: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 10:02:33AM -0800, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > > >> You have not read "PACKAGE_README". > > > > This is really the answer. I missed this document, things should work fine > > with it. > > One minor nit in the document, it uses "xargs" to collect a file list for > "tar", but the file list may be too long for one command invocation: > > % cd INSTALL_ROOT > % rm -f SOMEWHERE/outputfile > % find . \! -type d -print | xargs tar cf SOMEWHERE/outputfile > % gzip SOMEWHERE/outputfile > > With "tar c", only the last batch of files are in the tar archive. The > command should be "tar rf" not "tar cf".
On what systems does the list exceed the NCARGS command length limit? Wietse