Problem with tar

FredrikN · 12-23-2005, 03:30 PM

Hello there.

I'm trying to archive some files where the names contains spaces like

movie hello.mpeg
movie go away.mpeg
linux questions.mpeg

Without spaces the command
tar -cvf ark.tar.gz `find -name "*.mpeg" -print`
will solve the question.

But how can I deal with the spaces ?

Thanks

FredrikN · 12-23-2005, 04:10 PM

Problem solved.

The trick was to use xargs -0 (terminate by a null char)

find -print0 -name "*.mpeg" | xargs -0 tar -czf archive.tar.gz