Making archive from files with same names in different directories

I have some files with same names but under different directories. For example, path1/filea, path1/fileb, path2/filea, path2/fileb,....

What is the best way to make the files into an archive? Under these directories, there are many other files under these directories that I don't want to make into the 开发者_如何学Pythonarchive. Off the top of my head, I think of using Bash, probably ar, tar and other commands, but am not sure how exactly to do it.

Renaming the files seems to make the file names a little complicated. I tend to keep the directory structure inside the archive. Or I might be wrong. Other ideas are welcome!

Thanks and regards!

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EDIT:

Examples would be really nice!

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you can use tar with --exclude PATTERN option. See the man page for more. To exclude files, you can see this page for examples.

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You may give the find command multiple directories to search through.

# example: create archive of .tex files
find -x LaTeX-files1 LaTeX-files2 -name "*.tex" -print0 | tar --null --no-recursion -uf LaTeXfiles.tar --files-from - 

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To recursively copy only files with filename "filea" or "fileb" from /path/to/source to /path/to/archive, you could use:

rsync -avm --include='file[ab]' -f 'hide,! */' /path/to/source/ /path/to/archive/

• '*/' is a pattern which matches 'any directory'
• '! */' matches anything which is not a directory (i.e. a file)
• 'hide,! */' means hide all files
• Filter rules are applied in order, and the first rule that matches is applied. --include='file[ab]' has precedence, so if a file matches 'file[ab]', it is included. Any other file gets excluded from the list of files to transfer.

Another alternative is to use the find...exec pattern:

mkdir /path/to/archive
cd /path/to/source
find . -type f -iname "file[ab]" -exec cp --parents '{}' /path/to/archive ";"

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What I have used to make a tar ball for the files with same name in different directories is

$find <path> -name <filename> -exec tar -rvf data.tar '{}' \;

i.e. tar [-]r --append

Hope this helps.