Compress one Folder
 

Hai Friends

I have one doubt. I have one folder in my linux server. that folder having lot of sub folder , text files , images etc...
I need to tar that file using tar command . my need is i dont want tar for that full folder. i want to tar only html and txt files only .
so how to do this

please advise me

i am using centos 5

one simple solution is :

move or copy *.txt and *.jpg files to another directory and make of that.

tar zcvf backup.tgz *.html *.jpeg

Untested(!)

That won't go recursively into subfolders, and also it will spill into many files when extracted.