Large number of files in single directory

[Chris]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Carville" <stephen at totalflood.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: Large number of files in single directory

> Try:
>
> $ find <directory> -exec tar -avf foo.tar {} \;

Didn't work.  The -a is an invalid option on Fedora, it seems.  I replaced 
it with -cz to create and compress the tar file, but even with that, it goes 
through the list of files (lists them one per line) as if it was actually 
taring them, but the resulting .tar file only has the very LAST file that 
tar listed - and nothing else in it.  :-?

Chris