On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 11:45:28AM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 11:33:05AM -0500, Jim Crumley wrote: > > Try: > > > > find /usr/local/sites/ -iname '.SPAM*' -exec tar cjvf {} spam_20050517.tar.bz2 \; > > Do not try that, the first argument to tar is the output file. Ack. That's what I get for not testing my solution. > <warning, UNTESTED> > To stretch the example, you would do > > find /usr/local/sites/ -iname '.SPAM*' -exec tar cuvf spam_20050517.tar {} \; > bzip2 spam_20050517.tar This won't work either - you need "tar uvf", not "tar cuvf". -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |