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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Files count mismatch when used with Tar with find Post 302577896 by m.d.ludwig on Wednesday 30th of November 2011 07:52:30 AM
Old 11-30-2011
The reason you are not getting what you expect is that xargs is re-invoking tar every time the command line fills. cpio could be used, or you could use the "-T" option of tar:
Code:
find ./ -type f -mtime +7 -name "*.00*" | tar -zcv -f Archieve_7.tar.gz -T -

Or if your version of tar does not support this option, you can append files
Code:
tar -cf Archieve_7.tar README
find ./ -type f -mtime +7 -name "*.00*" | xargs tar -rvf Archieve_7.tar
gzip -9 Archieve_7.tar

tar doesn't let you create an empty archive, so you need to start with something.
Hope this helps.
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virt-tar-out(1) 					      Virtualization Support						   virt-tar-out(1)

NAME

       virt-tar-out - Pack a virtual machine disk image directory into a tarball.

SYNOPSIS

	virt-tar-out -a disk.img /dir files.tar

	virt-tar-out -d domain /dir files.tar

	virt-tar-out -d domain /dir - | gzip --best > files.tar.gz

DESCRIPTION

       "virt-tar-out" packs a virtual machine disk image directory into a tarball.

       The first parameter is the absolute path of the virtual machine directory.  The second parameter is the tar file to write.  Use "-" to
       write to standard output.

EXAMPLES

       Download the home directories from a guest:

	virt-tar-out -d MyGuest /home - | gzip --best > homes.tar.gz

JUST A SHELL SCRIPT WRAPPER AROUND GUESTFISH

       This command is just a simple shell script wrapper around the guestfish(1) "tar-out" command.  For anything more complex than a trivial
       copy, you are probably better off using guestfish directly.

OPTIONS

       Since the shell script just passes options straight to guestfish, read guestfish(1) to see the full list of options.

SEE ALSO

       guestfish(1), virt-cat(1), virt-copy-in(1), virt-copy-out(1), virt-edit(1), virt-tar-in(1), <http://libguestfs.org/>.

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       Richard W.M. Jones ("rjones at redhat dot com")

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