Steffen Nurpmeso <stef...@sdaoden.eu> wrote:
> I've changed it back to how it was all the time, and only use "|
> xargs -0 tar -r -f $ar", adding the compression step later on.
> As far as i recall all this originated, long ago that is, from the
> problem that file lists stored in a file were not supported by all
> tar's around and for all possible operations, and this is a real
> pity, given that argument lists exceed so soon, and space is
> expensive. Anyway, a mode to simply concatenate, and then
> a finalizer invocation would be great for my use case, otherwise.
> Maybe i'll switch to ar(1) instead, in the future.
A better solution may be to call:
star -c -f some-file -find ....
This is even faster than using find | xargs.
Jörg
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