using tar to compress specific files in a directory named a certain way
 

Hi All,

I need to create a tar archive of only files that start with "60-", located in a directory with a lot of other files that I don't want in the archive.

I tried this but it doesn't work:

tar -zcvf backfill.tar.gz | grep "60-"

Can someone help?

Thanks

You're over-complicating it:

:)

John G

Thanks. When I ran the command the way you suggested,I received the "argument list too long" message so I created a text file containing the list of files:

find /usr/www/htdocs/images/closeup | grep "60-" > filelist.txt

And then, fed the text file to tar:

tar -zcvf backfill.tar.gz --files-from filelist.txt

Worked fine.

Thanks

i think this works too

tar -zcvf backfill.tar.gz `ls 60\-*`