Ubuntu – How to create a zip file from contents of a folder with certain name pattern

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is it possible to create a tar.gz file from contents of a folder but only put the files with certain name pattern in the archive and ignore the rest? for example just put the files which their names are log_?

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You can use tar directly:

tar -zcvf file.tar.gz log_*

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You can do 1. with the following command:

tar cvf archive.tar --transform 's,^,baseFolder/,'  a b

The archive will contain:

$ tar tvf archive.tar
drwxrwxr-x sylvain/sylvain   0 2015-03-18 12:47 baseFolder/a/
-rw-rw-r-- sylvain/sylvain   0 2015-03-18 12:47 baseFolder/a/foo
drwxrwxr-x sylvain/sylvain   0 2015-03-18 12:47 baseFolder/b/
-rw-rw-r-- sylvain/sylvain   0 2015-03-18 12:47 baseFolder/b/bar

For 2. you can run tar with multiple --transform options:

tar cvf archive.tar --transform 's,^a,changed_a,' --transform 's,^b,changed_b,'  a b

The archive will contain:

$ tar tvf archive.tar
drwxrwxr-x sylvain/sylvain   0 2015-03-18 12:47 changed_a/
-rw-rw-r-- sylvain/sylvain   0 2015-03-18 12:47 changed_a/foo
drwxrwxr-x sylvain/sylvain   0 2015-03-18 12:47 changed_b/
-rw-rw-r-- sylvain/sylvain   0 2015-03-18 12:47 changed_b/bar

For 3. you can combine 1. and 2. as follows:

tar cvf archive.tar --transform 's,^a,changed_a,' --transform 's,^b,changed_b,' --transform 's,^,baseFolder/,' a b

The archive will contain:

$ tar tvf archive.tar
drwxrwxr-x sylvain/sylvain   0 2015-03-18 12:47 baseFolder/changed_a/
-rw-rw-r-- sylvain/sylvain   0 2015-03-18 12:47 baseFolder/changed_a/foo
drwxrwxr-x sylvain/sylvain   0 2015-03-18 12:47 baseFolder/changed_b/
-rw-rw-r-- sylvain/sylvain   0 2015-03-18 12:47 baseFolder/changed_b/bar

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