On Saturday 17 March 2007 14:45, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > 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.
this is not true, see Tyler Smit's post.
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