Compress one Folder

saran_redhat · 02-11-2010, 01:47 AM

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

sohail0399 · 02-11-2010, 02:01 AM

one simple solution is :

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

chrism01 · 02-11-2010, 05:45 PM

tar zcvf backup.tgz *.html *.jpeg

Untested(!)

MTK358 · 02-11-2010, 06:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrism01

tar zcvf backup.tgz *.html *.jpeg

Untested(!)

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