Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
It works with 'xargs -n1' (and no need for -1 to ls) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
