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. <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 But that will still be horribly inefficient, spawning one tar process for every file. florin -- Don't question authority: they don't know either! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20050517/3a7ecaf6/attachment.pgp