How to find and tar files into a tar ball last updated December 27, 2017 in Categories BASH Shell, Linux, UNIXI would like to find all documents file *.doc and create a tarball of those files and store in /nfs/backups/docs/file.tar. Is it possible to find and tar files on a Linux or Unix-like system?
Exclude Certain Files When Creating A Tarball Using Tar Command last updated August 23, 2012 in Categories Backup & Recovery, Fedora Linux, File system, FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD, Solaris-Unix, UNIXHow can I keep out certain files when creating a tarball? For example:/home/me/file1 /home/me/dir1 /home/me/dir2 /home/me/abc /home/me/xyzHow do I execute zyz and abc file while using a tar command?