How to archive 70 files from one directory to different archives?

Question

linux

I tried so that through tail -n 70 then skip 70, but:

$ls -l -t test/ | head -70 | tar -cvf archive_2_70.tar.gz
tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive

There are 210 files in the directory.

Answer 1

for tar pass through xargs , not pipe ))

Answer 2

in a pipe there is no way to transfer several separate files / sets of names
. First, you cut your listing into separate files with 70 names in each. you throw it into a frame so as not to force the carrier.

ls -l -t test/ |  split -l 70 -  /run/user/1000/list

there will be a bunch of files called listaa listab ....
then you feed these separate lists of names already tar

for file in /run/user/1000/list*
do
      i++
      tar  --files-from=$file  -cvf  /path/to/archive_$i_70.tar.gz 
done

you will get a pack of tar-archives in each of which there will be 70 files from the source directory.
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