Large number of files in single directory

[Stephen Carville]

Rigler, Stephen C. wrote:
> I think you want to use the "-A" switch to append (concatenate) files to
> an archive.  Look at "man tar".  I'm not sure if this works with
> compressed (gzip'd) archives though, so you might need to compress after
> the tar is done.

Oops!  That should be

$ sudo find <directory> -exec tar -rvf foo.tar {} \;

-r means add files to the end of an archive.  -A is to concatenate two 
tar files.

> -Steve
> 
> On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 11:51 -0700, Chris wrote:
> 
>>----- 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 
>>
>>
> 
> 


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