Tar large files in linux

[kalgally]

Hi Experts,

I have been using the below command in Sun Solaris for tar the .tmp files

tar -cvf temp.tar ./*/*.tmp

But when I use the same command in Linux, I got "Argument too long list" error. I know this is because of the ARGS_MAX setup in Linux.

For workaround I used the below command, it printing all the files but at the end the tar has only few files not all of them.

find ./*/ -name '*.tmp' -print0| xargs -0 tar -cvf temp.tar

I dont knwo what may be the error in the above command. Please help.

Thanks,
Gally

[scm]

When you have a large list of files, I'd archive them with cpio (I'm assuming that you want all the .tmp files from the current directory downwards):

find . -name '*.tmp' -print -depth | cpio -o >myarchive.cpio

Use -ov instead of -o to list the files while cpio is archiving them. cpio is a much underrated (and underused) utility.

[thiyagi]

thanks,was useful...