How can i make a tar of selective file type under a directory

Question

I want to take backup of selective files say *.py under a directory. How can i do that?

Please help me to achieve it.

Answer 1

Actually, you'd probably want something more like

tar cvf filename.tar `find . -name '*.py'`

The first example would only get *.py files one level deep.

Answer 2

tar cf filename.tar *.py Should do what you need.

Answer 3

In order to accommodate possible filenames with spaces and do a recursive search, use:

find . -type f -name '*.py' -print0 | tar --null cvf archive_name.tar -T -