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## [Is this a good way to tar.gz a list of files](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-this-a-good-way-to-tar-gz-a-list-of-files/98532)

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**Author:** [@sparrowhawk](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sparrowhawk)\
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**Last updated:** [May 9, 2023, 7:09am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-this-a-good-way-to-tar-gz-a-list-of-files/98532 "2023-05-09T07:09:37Z")

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Hi, I have some code which I don’t control the output of, which generates a whole bunch of files per unique index. We have a restriction on the number of files (inodes) on our filesystem, so it would be nice to make a ta…