How to find and tar files into a tar ball

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   -name   -exec tar -czf   {} +

• : The directory you want to search for files.
• : A shell pattern that matches the filenames you want to find. For example, *.txt matches all text files.
• : 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.