Question

I want to create tar file with all the output files resulting from executing find command.

I tried the following command:

find  . \(-name "*.log" -o -name "*.log.*" \) -mtime +7 -exec tar cvf test.tar.gz {} \;

But it is including only the last found file in the test.tar file. How to include all files in test.tar file?

Regards
Chaitanya

Answer 1

Use command line substitution:

tar cf test.tar $(find  . \(-name "*.log" -o -name "*.log.*" \) -mtime +7)

What this does is run the command in $() and makes the output the command line arguments of the outer command.

This uses the more modern bash notation. If you are not using bash, you can also use backticks which should work with most shells:

tar cf test.tar `find  . \(-name "*.log" -o -name "*.log.*" \) -mtime +7`

While backticks are more portable, the $() notation is easier if you need to nest command line substitution.