Help With Tar and Find Command

[gaspower]

Hello,

I am trying to tar certain files in a directory, but I keep getting a tar invalid --a option? What I am using is this,

tar -cvjf filename.tar.bz2 find -name '*.sql' -o -name '*.bz2'

Thanks JR

[whych]

Not that good at command line, but look at Mommy, I found it! — 15 Practical Linux Find Command Examples for find examples.

[Felarin]

Hello,

I am trying to tar certain files in a directory, but I keep getting a tar invalid --a option? What I am using is this,

tar -cvjf filename.tar.bz2 find -name '*.sql' -o -name '*.bz2'

Thanks JR

Try

tar -tjf filename.tar.gz2 | grep *.sql