I have a CD with a number of files on. I am trying to extract a list for files with a certain extension and then copy them to another location with the directory structure intact.

To do this I choose tar and find:

cd /mnt/cdrom tar -cf ~ash/test.tar `find . -name "*.dwg" -print`

This would create a tarball, which I could copy, and expand into a new location.

However, on running the command the following error is returned:

"/bin/tar Argument list too long"

There are probably around 4000 files on the CD with a .dwg extension. How can I get around this problem? Is there a better solution to what I am trying to achieve?

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