On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 02:35:01PM +0100, Thomas Jollans wrote: > On Saturday 17 March 2007 13:58, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 05:00:21AM -0500, Adam Porter wrote: > > > You use find to spit out a list of the files you want (you _may_ be able > > to just use ls -1 .tar), pipe that through xargs. Something like this: > > > > ls -1 .tar.gz | xargs tar [tar options -f ] > > > > for each line of input it receives, xargs will tack it to the end of the > > command line you give it (in the example, it will be tacked on after the > > -f). > > That shouldn't change anything. Tar is unable to unpack multiple archives, > end > or story (the exception being multi-volume archives where you need -M and > an -f for each file)
Of course it changes everything. xargs runs tar on each line of input it gets. If ls -1 finds three tarballs, it gives three lines to xargs. xargs then runs tar three times, each with one tarball argument. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
