Tar a range of files

[Kieren]

I have a directory containg lots of sub-directories which are numbers sequentially. I am trying to tar up a selection of them, for instance folders 1002 to 10053.

How would I tar up files between to ranges?

[tpl]

one way is to put the names of what you want included
into a file F, and then use tar's "-T, --files-from F
get names to extract or archive from file F" option;
and as the names are sequential, you can use seq:

seq 1002 10053>F; tar -T F cf new.tar

you might try it with a small F at first

[Kieren]

Had to edit you version a bit to:

seq 1000 1050 >F; tar cf newfile.tar -T F; rm F

but thanks for pointing me in the right direction