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/bin/tar: Argument list too long
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| @url https://major.io/2007/07/05/bintar-argument-list-too-long/ | |
| If you find yourself stuck with over 30,000 files in a directory (text files in this example), packing them into a tar file can be tricky. You can get around it with this: | |
| find . -name '*.txt' -print >/tmp/test.manifest | |
| tar -cvzf textfiles.tar.gz --files-from /tmp/test.manifest | |
| find . -name '*.txt' | xargs rm -v |
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