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

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

tar -czv -T file_list.txt -f tarball.tar.gz

and how to make list of files to tar up: first create the list of files to tar up

ls > temp

then

tar cvzf dicionario_ultra.tgz -X FILE -T temp

and finally

rm temp

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