Change tar to GNU

[Stijn Hoop]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 09:36:40AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> writes:
> > find $PATH -newermt 20050214 | xargs tar cf new.tar
> 
> Bad idea, for a number of different reasons (including file names
> containing spaces or other special characters, and command line length
> limits).  The following is slightly better, but will still fail if you
> have files with newlines in them:
> 
> find $PATH -newermt 2005-02-14 | tar -c -f new.tar -T/dev/stdin

Won't find -print0 | xargs -0 ... work in all cases?

--Stijn

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