I need to bash script to tar half of the files in a directory. The files are .gz files with the naming convention x.gz where x is a number starting from 1 and ends with 100, I need to tar the first half of the files. How do I do this?
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I need to bash script to tar half of the files in a directory. The files are .gz files with the naming convention x.gz where x is a number starting from 1 and ends with 100, I need to tar the first half of the files. How do I do this?
Your question is a little unclear. I assume you have x.gz and you want to add 1.gz to 50.gz into a tar file. If that is the case:
The above command will put the first 50 .gz files into an archive named MyArchive.tar.bz2