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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting xargs vs exec with find: Post 302671819 by Irishboy24 on Saturday 14th of July 2012 04:35:34 PM
Old 07-14-2012
xargs vs exec with find:
Hi All,

i'm trying to create a tar of all the .txt files i find in my dir . I've used xargs to acheive this but i wanted to do this with exec and looks like it only archives the last file it finds . can some one advice what's wrong here :

Code:
find . -type f -name "*.txt" -print0 | xargs -0 tar -cf txtarchive.tar

$ tar -tvf txtarchive.tar
-rw-r--r-- user/None  123 2012-06-30 17:39 ./employe.txt
-rw-r--r-- user/None   18 2012-07-04 12:59 ./file.txt
-rw-r--r-- user/None    5 2012-07-04 12:59 ./file2.txt
-rw-r--r-- user/None   13 2012-07-14 14:34 ./files.txt
-rw-r--r-- user/None   72 2012-07-12 14:12 ./filesfound.txt
-rw-r--r-- user/None 4938 2012-07-05 09:53 ./sql.txt
-rwxrwxrwx user/None    6 2012-02-15 16:35 ./users.txt

the same action but using exec:

Code:
$ find . -type f -name "*.txt" -exec tar -cvf archivetxt1.tar '{}' \;
./employe.txt
./file.txt
./file2.txt
./files.txt
./filesfound.txt
./sql.txt
./users.txt

$ tar -tvf archivetxt1.tar
-rwxrwxrwx chaitanya/None    6 2012-02-15 16:35 ./users.txt

can some advice whats wrong with my usage of exec here ?

cheers
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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