Re: Piping find into tar...

Dne 4.5.2011 11:42, Modulok napsal(a):
By the way, in reference to the commands above the -j option is for
bzip2, so the extension should be .tbz o_O

Thanks everyone! I went with the following, because it works regardless of
space characters in filenames. (Thanks for the correction on the extenion. It
should indeed be 'tbz' when using the 'j' flag.)

find -E . -regex '.*\.txt$' -print0 | xargs -0 tar -cjf result.tbz

When the amount of files is huge then tar will be invoked twice
or more. Thus result.tbz will contain just files from the last invocation.

I consider cpio a better option here.

The use of simple patterns permitted by tar(1) or cpio(1) may be a
good choice in some cases, but we were responding to the OP's wish to
use find(1), which is a bit more flexible. If there were a large
number of files, one could still use find and tar in many cases by
appending to the archive rather than (re)creating it with each tar
invocation, e.g.:

find . -type f -name '*.txt' -print0 | xargs -0 tar -rvf archive.tar
; bzip2 archive.tar

b.
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