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How to find and tar files into a tar ball

last updated December 27, 2017 in BASH Shell, Linux, UNIX

I 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 Backup & Recovery, Fedora Linux, File system, FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD, Solaris-Unix, UNIX

How 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/xyz

How do I execute zyz and abc file while using a tar command?