On Tue, 17 May 2005 11:41:43 -0500 florin at iucha.net (Florin Iucha) wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 11:15:22AM -0500, Josh Trutwin wrote: > > I'm trying to use the following command to create an archive of > > all the SPAM folders I have on my email system: > > > > find /usr/local/sites/ -iname '.SPAM*' | xargs tar cjvf > > spam_20050517.tar.bz2 > > > > There are IMAP folders called SPAM, Not Spam, etc. The command > > works ok until it encounters something like "Not Spam" then the > > space trips the command up. > > > > tar: /usr/local/sites/www.davidtrutwin.com/users/dlt/.spam.Not: > > Cannot stat: No such file or directory > > tar: Spam: Cannot stat: No such file or directory > > > > Is there an easy fix to this? > > find $dir -print0 | xargs ... Almost, one detail missing: find /usr/local/sites/ -iname '.SPAM*' -print0 | xargs --null tar cjvf spam_20050517.tar.bz2 The --null arguement to xargs is required. The other post which had a tar being spawned for every file was very undesirable as the above command may archive close to 100k files! Thanks! Josh