bash: /bin/tar: Argument list too long when compressing many files with tar

Question

I am trying compress files from an archive with the command

tar -czvf compress_file.tar.gz $(cat file_list.txt)

And I have an error

-bash: /bin/tar: Argument list too long

The files numbers is too long, how can I resolve this?

Answer 1

Use the "-T" option to pass a file to tar that contains the filenames to tar up.

tar -cv -T file_list.txt -f tarball.tar

Answer 2

and how to make list of files to tar up: first ls > temp ## create the list of files to tar up then tar cvzf dicionario_ultra.tgz -X FILE -T temp and finally rm temp