05-02-2006
arg list too long when trying to tar files
Hi,
I am trying to perform this task:
tar -cvf tar.newfile ??????.bas
I got error "arg list too long". Is ther any way around? I have about 1500 file need to be tar together.
Thanks in advance
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NAME
bup-join - concatenate files from a bup repository
SYNOPSIS
bup join [-r host:path] [refs or hashes...]
DESCRIPTION
bup join is roughly the opposite operation to bup-split(1). You can use it to retrieve the contents of a file from a local or remote bup
repository.
The supplied list of refs or hashes can be in any format accepted by git(1), including branch names, commit ids, tree ids, or blob ids.
If no refs or hashes are given on the command line, bup join reads them from stdin instead.
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Retrieves objects from the given remote repository instead of the local one. path may be blank, in which case the default remote
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EXAMPLE
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bup-split(1), bup-save(1), ssh_config(5)
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