Using Tar with a Text Input File
July 09, 2023 —
Gregg Szumowski
If you have a lot of files in a directory and you only need to
tar a subset of them you can create a list of the files you
want in a text file and pass it to the tar command like
this:
$ tar -cvf tarball.tar -T filelist.txt
or
$ tar cvf tarball.tar $(cat filelist.txt)