command to find and tar files

[Sagar Sirdesai]

Hi
find /dir -depth -name "back*" -type f -print | xargs tar -cvf back.tar


Thanks

Sagar

[Dennis Handly]

>Sagar: find /dir -depth -name "back*" -type f -print | xargs tar -cvf back.tar

As Duncan, Steven and I said, you can't use tar with find, unless you gnu tar or pax.

Your example will continually overwrite back.tar and not in a good way.

[Laurent Menase]

are you looking for file starting with string back or file which filename start with back?

my solution was to backup files starting with back, not for which filename start with back.

else it is simply
find . -name back\* | xargs tar cvf mytar

[Dennis Handly]

>Laurent: find . -name back\* | xargs tar cvf mytar

How many times do we need to mention you can't use find and HP's tar this way? :-)