On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 15:34, Jacob Fugal wrote: > find /root/of/tree [conditions] | xargs tar -cjf backup.tar.bz
Instead of using xargs, you could use a nested find as such: tar -cjf backup.tar.bz $(find /root/of/tree [conditions]) I've found that to work just as well except in cases where files have spaces in their names, under which circumstances I think you'll have problems with xargs too. Corey ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
