Linux – How to tar certain file types in all subdirectories

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I want to tar and all .php and .html files in a directory and its subdirectories. If I use

tar -cf my_archive *

it tars all the files, which I don't want. If I use

tar -cf my_archive *.php *.html

it ignores subdirectories. How can I make it tar recursively but include only two types of files?

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find ./someDir -name "*.php" -o -name "*.html" | tar -cf my_archive -T -

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tar -czvf my_directory.tar.gz -C my_directory .

The -C my_directory tells tar to change the current directory to my_directory, and then . means "add the entire current directory" (including hidden files and sub-directories).

Make sure you do -C my_directory before you do . or else you'll get the files in the current directory.

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You can have multiple exclude options for tar so

$ tar --exclude='./folder' --exclude='./upload/folder2' -zcvf /backup/filename.tgz .

etc will work. Make sure to put --exclude before the source and destination items.

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