How to tar folders with specific letter

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I have a long list of folders. i want tar only folder which starts with "a". How can i do that?

Actually, I am having photo gallery website, which has 1000s of folders. I wish to move another server using wget option. Total size of the gallery is around 25GB. Moving 25GB will take more time, for that i am looking for the solution.

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 28 '12 at 13:20

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Are all folders within the same top folder? If so, the answer is simple:

tar cf /path/to/outfile.tar /path/to/folders/a*

If the files are not all in the same folder, you can do a find to get them:

find /path/to/folders/ -type d -name a\* -exec tar rf /path/to/outfile.tar {} \;

answered Dec 28 '12 at 13:20

Jenny D

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Jenny D: Yes, All of them are same folder. – palPalani Dec 28 '12 at 13:21
And I will add my vote to the rsync suggestion. – Jenny D Dec 28 '12 at 14:58

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 28 '12 at 13:16

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You could use a mask for inclusion. Like a*

To move\sync files and folders take a look over rsync

answered Dec 28 '12 at 13:16

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 28 '12 at 13:16

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tar cvf <tarfile> a*

from the directory containing all the folders will do what you want.

answered Dec 28 '12 at 13:16

John

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+1 for rsync, since if the connection fails, it will resume the transfer and copy only remaining files; if you don't have access to setup a rsync daemon at the other end, just use rsync over ssh – quaie Dec 28 '12 at 14:16

How to tar folders with specific letter

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