On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 08:53:13PM +0200, Didier Wiroth wrote:
> Using "find ... | xargs tar ..." does not work as expected, as it looks like
> xargs invokes the tar command multiple times.
man xargs
You probably want to override the limit with xargs -n.
But actually, since tar is recursive, y
Well that's not so hard...
~/.tmp% ls -la
total 2190
drwx-- 3 han users512 Sep 23 21:19 .
drwx-- 18 han users 1536 Sep 23 21:20 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 han users 908581 Sep 7 18:55 configure
-rwxr-xr-x 1 han users 908228 Sep 7 18:51 configure.orig
-rw-r--r-- 1 han users596 Sep
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Didier Wiroth wrote:
> How can achive my goal with the standard openbsd files (without installing
> gtar!)?
When I started to do backup many years ago it was a find piped to cpio.
so i think you could replace the xargs tar with some variant of
cpio -o -H ustar which should g
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Didier Wiroth wrote:
How can achive my goal with the standard openbsd files (without installing
gtar!)?
Read tar(1) and have a look at the "-s" flag.
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Antoine
Hello,
I would like to tar and compress my ports dir without the following 2
directories:
a) distfiles
b) packages
Here is a gtar command I used that works well:
cd /usr && gtar -czpf ~/test.tar.gz --exclude=packages --exclude=distfiles ports
Actually I would like to do the same with the default
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