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Compress a Directory with tar

Create a gzipped tarball, excluding noisy dot-dirs.

Author: chris

// Language: Bash

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

src="$HOME/projects/app"
out="$HOME/backups/app-$(date +%F).tar.gz"

tar -czf "$out" \
    --exclude='.git' \
    --exclude='node_modules' \
    -C "$(dirname "$src")" "$(basename "$src")"

printf 'wrote %s\n' "$out"