How to tar certain file types in all subdirectories

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I want to tar and all  php and  html files in a directory and its subdirectories  If I use   tar -cf my archive    it tars all the files  which I don t want  If I use   tar -cf my archive   php   html  it ignores subdirectories  How can I make it tar recursively but include only two types of files

User · Accepted Answer

find   someDir -name    php  -o -name    html    tar -cf my archive -T -

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One method is   tar -cf my archive tar    find -name    php  -or -name    html      There are some caveats with this method however    It will fail if there are any files or directories with spaces in them  and it will fail if there are so many files that the maximum command line length is full    A workaround to these could be to output the contents of the find command into a file  and then use the  -T  --files-from FILE  option to tar

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If you re using bash version   4 0  you can exploit shopt -s globstar to make short work of this   shopt -s globstar  tar -czvf deploy tar gz    Alice  yml    Bob  json   this will add all  yml files that starts with Alice from any sub-directory and add all  json files that starts with Bob from any sub-directory

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This will handle paths with spaces   find    -type f -name    php  -o -name    html  -exec tar uvf myarchives tar

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find    -type f -name    php  -o -name    html  -printf   P n   xargs tar -I  pigz -9  -cf target tgz   for multicore or just for one core   find    -type f -name    php  -o -name    html  -printf   P n   xargs tar -czf target tgz

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Put them in a file  find      -name    php  -o -name    html     -print  gt  files txt   Then use the file as input to tar  use -I or -T depending on the version of tar you use  Use h to copy symbolic links  tar cfh my tar -I files txt

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tar -cf my archive  find      grep   php   html     Use  find  and  grep  to get all path of  php and  html files in all directory and its sub-directories  Then pass those path information to tar to compress   Please be careful with those symbol   and    Note also that this will hit the limit of how many characters your shell will allow on the command line  unlike some of the other answers

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