On Thu, 2023-02-02 at 07:54 -0600, Robert Nichols wrote:
> On 2/1/23 4:28 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> > On 01Feb2023 13:07, Jerry James <loganjerry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > If you can make your list with find, you can also do something
> > > like this:
> > >
> > > find [top directory] [find criteria here] -exec tar -cvzf
> > > arch.tgz {} +
> >
> > This recreates the tar file once per file, ending up with a tar
> > file containing only the last file found.
>
> No, it does not. Note the "+" at the end, which tells the "find"
> command to pass as many arguments as will fit within the maximum
> length of a command line.
I didn't know that. Interesting.
> Your "multiple groups" warning below still applies, but on modern
> systems this is quite a large limit. Run "getconf ARG_MAX" to see the
> limit on your system.
That does work, but I can find no reference to getconf in the Fedora
docs even though the command is part of glibc-common. It would be nice
to know what other parameters it can tell me about.
poc
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