Re: tar ten files each time

At 2009-06-03 09:34PM, "moonhkt" wrote:
Tested on AIX 5.2. Thank a lot

Can not able to using printf "%s\0" *
Can not able to using xargs -0

# printf "%s\n" * | xargs -L 10
a1.txt a2.txt a3.txt a4.txt abc.txt
# printf "%s\n" * | xargs -L 4
a1.txt a2.txt a3.txt a4.txt
abc.txt
[shkdev:/home/ericl6/temp]

You need a way to protect files with spaces. Consider this:

$ ls -1
a file with spaces
file1
file2
file3
file4
this file has spaces

$ printf "%s\n" * | xargs -L 3 perl -e 'print join(",", @ARGV), "\n"'
a,file,with,spaces,file1,file2
file3,file4,this,file,has,spaces

That's no good. How about adding single quotes around %s:

$ printf "'%s'\n" * | xargs -L 3 perl -e 'print join(",", @ARGV), "\n"'
a file with spaces,file1,file2
file3,file4,this file has spaces

Ah, better. Will still have trouble if any of your filenames have a
single quote in them. There's a better technique offered by Stephane
some time ago, but I haven't learned that lesson :(

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