Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!ihuxu!jhall From: jhall@ihuxu.UUCP (John R. Hall-"the samurai MTS") Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: tar .vs. cpio - (nf) - Re: exceeding MAXARGS Message-ID: <372@ihuxu.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 09:11:33 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxu.372 Posted: Tue Aug 14 09:11:33 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Aug-84 00:42:59 EDT References: <226@haddock.UUCP> <2541@mit-eddie.UUCP> <416@astrovax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 12 If Berkeley UNIX has the xargs command, I believe you could use the following technique to avoid exceeding the MAXARGS parameter (usually 10 blocks default): find ...| xargs [options] tar xargs reads an argument list from standard input, and repeatedly builds up and executes a command line for the specified command. xargs is part of System V; it's not in my very old Berkeley UNIX manuals... -- --John R. Hall, ...ihnp4!ihuxu!jhall "And may your days be celebrations"