To find and tar (create an archive) files into a tar ball (
.tar file) in Linux, you can use the tar command in combination with the find command.Here’s the basic syntax:
$ find [directory] -name [pattern] -exec tar -czf [tarfile.tar.gz] {} +
[directory]: The directory you want to search for files.[pattern]: A shell pattern that matches the filenames you want to find. For example,*.txtmatches all text files.[tarfile.tar.gz]: The name of the tar ball you want to create.
For example, to find all .txt files in the current directory and its subdirectories and tar them into a tar ball named text_files.tar.gz, you can run the following command:
find . -name "*.txt" -exec tar -czf text_files.tar.gz {} +
The -c option tells tar to create a new archive, the -z option compresses the archive with gzip, and the -f option specifies the name of the tar ball. The {} and + options tell find to pass all matching files to the tar command at once, rather than one file at a time.
You can also use other options with the tar command, such as -v to show verbose output, -r to add files to an existing archive, or -x to extract files from an archive. For more information, you can run man tar in your terminal to see the manual pages for the tar command.