Question

I have some files with same names but under different directories. For example, path1/filea, path1/fileb, path2/filea, path2/fileb,….

What is the best way to make the files into an archive? Under these directories, there are many other files under these directories that I don’t want to make into the archive. Off the top of my head, I think of using Bash, probably ar, tar and other commands, but am not sure how exactly to do it.

Renaming the files seems to make the file names a little complicated. I tend to keep the directory structure inside the archive. Or I might be wrong. Other ideas are welcome!

Thanks and regards!

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EDIT:

Examples would be really nice!

Answer 1

What I have used to make a tar ball for the files with same name in different directories is

$find <path> -name <filename> -exec tar -rvf data.tar '{}' \;

i.e. tar [-]r --append

Hope this helps.