How to tar certain file types in all subdirectories?
Solution 1:
find ./someDir -name "*.php" -o -name "*.html" | tar -cf my_archive -T -
Solution 2:
If you're using bash version > 4.0, you can exploit shopt -s globstar to make short work of this:
shopt -s globstar; tar -czvf deploy.tar.gz **/Alice*.yml **/Bob*.json
this will add all .yml files that starts with Alice from any sub-directory and add all .json files that starts with Bob from any sub-directory.