Re: [tlug] Google; Twilight Tar

[Stuart Luppescu <s-luppescu@example.com>]

On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 13:22, Tony Laszlo wrote:
> On 17 Oct 2002, Stuart Luppescu wrote:
> 
> > find . -name \*.sas |xargs tar czfv ltest.tar.gz > ltest.log
> 
> > Is there a logical explanation for this, or am I living in the twilight
> > zone?
> 
> This worked for me. 
> 
> to see if it makes a difference you might try:  
> a) 
> tar czfv ltest.tar.gz `find . -name \*somestring` > ltest.log

Wow. This works. Weird. Why shouldn't the other form work, though?

> b)
> try some different files on a different server, with different 
> permissions, etc. 

The files are on a Sun 5.7 machine, and mounted by nfs on my Linux box.
I got the same results if I ran the command directly on the Sun or on my
Linux machine. Go figure.
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