tar specific files in several different subdirectories

Question

I have the following folder structure

A
|-B
| |-C
|   |-1.log
|   |-2.log
|-10.log
|-D
  |-E
  |-F
    |-php.log
    |-H
      |-php.log

I want to collect all the log files and the php file present in the H subdirectory and make into a tar.

I tried tar -czf temp.tar.gz /A/**/*.log /A/D/F/H/php.log but it doesn't seem to search recursively in the A directory.

I am using Amazon Linux

Answer 1

Don't rely on wildcard matching / shell globbing but instead use the find command to find and list the files you want and send that list to tar to be archived:

find /A/ -type f -print0 -name \*.log | tar -cvf /path/to/file.tar --null -T -

Answer 2

The following command will tar all .log files recursively across all your directory structure from the "." parent directory, if you want a specific file, just filter with greps:

tar -cvf file.tar `find . -type f -name *.log`