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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: tar: Pathname too long
Date: 13 Oct 2016 22:01:26 GMT
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On 2016-10-13, Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> wrote:
> On 10/13/16 11:17 AM, Robert Peirce wrote:
>> On 10/13/16 10:13 AM, Robert Peirce wrote:
>>> I didn't miss it.  I just recalled I had read there was some sort of
>>> problem with xargs so I chose not to pursue it.  However, I will give it
>>> a look.
>>
>> I know almost noting about xargs, but I tried this:
>>
>> find ./iTunes -newer TS -type f -print0 |
>> xargs -O tar -cf ~/iTunes.t
>
> I found a typo in the script.  It now works.  Thanks JR.
>
> I created two tar files using the old and new method and compared the 
> output.  It looked good and there was no problem with file name length.

Yey! Finally!

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