Tar of authorized_keys in unknown directories script

[mackman]

I need to create a tar file of all of the authorized_keys files in a directory and / or it's subdirectories.

I have this:
find /chroot/home/ -type f -name authorized_keys

How can I create a tar file of whatever it finds? I need to do it automatically so that I can have a cron job that backs up all of the authorized_keys into a folder.

Actually need the directory path too, like:
/chroot/home/mrjohn/.ssh/authorized_keys

That way I could restore it if needed.

[atreyu]

just throw the tar command in front of your find command, and put the find command in backticks, e.g.:

tar -cf /tmp/mykeys.tar `find /chroot/home/ -type f -name authorized_keys`

It will save the full path (less the beginning '/') in the tarball.