Find files and tar them

/note to myself

Finding files with most powerful utility find sending them to tarball

  find . -maxdepth 2 -type f -print0 | tar -czvf backup.tar.gz --null -T -  

It will:

• deal with files with spaces, newlines, leading dashes, and other funniness
• handle an unlimited number of files
• won't repeatedly overwrite your backup.tar.gz like using tar -c with xargs will do when you have a large number of files

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