[afnog] tar: Concatenate / Create from STDIN?

[Begumisa Gerald M]

      On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Brian Candler wrote:
    > Wrong question: "is there a way to concatenate one tar file with
    > another - where the second tar file comes from standard input?"
    >
    > Right question: "I am trying to tar up a large number of files and
    > directories, using 'find' to identify all files and directories
    > changed within the last N days. Unfortunately the number of
    > arguments to tar is too large. As a workaround I am creating
    > separate tar files each containing one file or directory, and then
    > using tar -A to join each piece onto the end of an existing tarfile.
    > Is there a better way to achieve this?"

Thanks for the tip, Brian :-)


Gerald.