Linux – How to only tar files in a directory based on a specific file name

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I want to create a tar ball and include only the files in the directory that start with a specific filename. For instance I have apples-x.x.x and oranges-x.x.x, and I only want to tar the files beginning with "apple". How can I do this?

Thanks!

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Ummm, I may be overlooking something, but how about

tar cf /path/tarfile appl*

Unless you have directories which are also called ./appl*, in which case they'll get trawled up, with their contents, that should do it. If the latter pertains, you can stop that with --no-recursion.

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To strip down the parent directory:

tar zxvf latest.tar.gz --strip 1

If you want to be sure that nothing from the parent directory is extracted:

tar zxvf latest.tar.gz --strip 1 wordpress/directories

Edit:

--strip (--strip-path or --strip-components) was introduced in tar 1.14.

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tar -C changes directory

tar -C /home/user1/ -cvzf dir1.tar.gz dir1

btw, handy one for keeping track of changing directories... use pushd and popd.

pushd .
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popd

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