>From: "Ian C. Blenke" <ian@blenke.com>
>Reply-To: slug@nks.net
>To: slug@nks.net
>Subject: Re: [SLUG] creating tar archive of filenames containing spaces
>Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:31:40 -0400
>
>Eben King wrote:
>
>>I hope "find" doesn't spit out more filenames than
>>can go in "tar"'s argument list, because then xargs
>>will run tar again and it'll overwrite the existing
>>archive with the next batch. IIRC tar has an option
>>like "take names from filename" (-T?). Might "find
>>... | tar ... -T -" do what you want? Sorry if I'm
>>off base; my Linux box is down for a few days.
>>
>>
>
>Very true. You can also use "--null" to accept null terminated names, ie:
>
> find . -print0 | tar cf ../test.tar -T - --null
>
>Which, like find -print0 and xargs -0, allows tar to accept a null
>terminated list of filenames.
>
>Not that I think you need --null there, as each filename is already on a
>separate line, right?
>
>Then again, you can theoretically have newlines in a filename... (hooray
>sentinel values!)
>
>>>You could also just tar up the entire directory:
>>>
>>> tar cf ../test.tar .
>>>
>>>Another option is to temporarily redefine IFS.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>"/" can't occur in filenames.
>>
>>
>
>Er? You referring to "../test.tar"? That means "test.tar in the parent
>directory"
>
>If you're referring to absolute vs relative filenames inside a tar file,
>that's a different issue.
>
>- Ian
>
Thanks for the tips guys! I appreciate your ideas and will probably make it
work using find. However, I'm still curious to know if I made wrong
assumptions about bash with the first method that I tried. Why does the
following syntax fail to correctly handle filenames containing spaces?
tar -cf ../archive.tar $(ls -Q *)
Jonathon
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