I have ~20 files, each about 10 GB in size, in different folders that I need to compress into a single tar. It is not practical to copy them all to one location. More precisely, the files are organized something like this:index1_index2/subfolder/bigfile.datHere index1 and index2 each vary over a few values.What is a practical way to get a single tarball containing all these files, say with bash or something?
Tar big files in different directories
shell script;tar;compression