[ILUG] tar: arg list too long

Feroz F. Basir dbase77 at yahoo.com
Sat Dec 29 15:14:35 GMT 2001


Hi,

I'm trying to tar some files. When I tried :

tar -cvf /dev/rmt/c0t3d0s0 * , I'm getting error
message saying "arg list too long". If I'm not wrong
this is because the path name is too long. any way i
could go around this problem?

thank you in advance.


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