On Thu, 2023-02-02 at 07:54 -0600, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 2/1/23 4:28 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > On 01Feb2023 13:07, Jerry James <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If you can make your list with find, you can also do something > > > like this: > > > > > > find [top directory] [find criteria here] -exec tar -cvzf > > > arch.tgz {} + > > > > This recreates the tar file once per file, ending up with a tar > > file containing only the last file found. > > No, it does not. Note the "+" at the end, which tells the "find" > command to pass as many arguments as will fit within the maximum > length of a command line.
I didn't know that. Interesting. > Your "multiple groups" warning below still applies, but on modern > systems this is quite a large limit. Run "getconf ARG_MAX" to see the > limit on your system. That does work, but I can find no reference to getconf in the Fedora docs even though the command is part of glibc-common. It would be nice to know what other parameters it can tell me about. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
