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What's the best way to copy (and after I've confirmed it works ok, move) all files matching *.bak* (within an entire directory structure) into a single tar file?

This is what I want to achieve, albeit the syntax is not correct:

tar -cvf MigrationBAKFiles.tar (find . -name *.BAK*)

Maybe I can't move the files into a tar file, and instead need to create the tar file, then delete the original files?

I think you are doing the right way, but this could be a better solution:

Code:

% find . -name -type f "*.bak*" -exec tar -cvf MigrationBAKFiles.tar {} \;

thanks bsddaemon, but does this move/copy the files into the tar ?

Obviously it does copies the files in to the tar.

My suggestion is that, Linux is actually experiment, and become master kind of OS. So if you have very simple doubts do expeiments with proper caution.
Create a temporary dirs/files and do experimentation is my suggestion ..

And if you find you are wasting time, and you are unable to find something then these forums are always there for such a kind of it to help you..

Have tried with both " or ' around the *.bak*, but get the error message each time:

find . -name -type f '*.bak*' -exec tar -cvf MigrationBAKFiles.tar {} \;

find: 0652-009 There is a missing conjunction

Any ideas?