On 2007-03-17, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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). > > I have not tested this, YMMV.
I have, and unfortunately it doesn't work. The result is the same as the original problem with the regular * expansion: tyler:tar-> find ./ -name '*.tar.gz' | xargs echo ../one.tar.gz ./three.tar.gz ./two.tar.gz replace echo with tar, and you see that tar is going to try and extract the second and third archives from within the first archive, which fails. I think you have to use some sort of loop, as other posters have suggested. -- Regards, Tyler Smit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
