How to add the first 10,000 files to an archive?

Question

bash

Hello!
How can I add the first or any 10000 files to an archive in a given folder?

Answer 1

the list of the first 10000 can be pulled out, for example, through the ls -l | awk '{print($9)}' | head -n 10000
last ones - similarly, through tail instead of head. Next, you submit the list to the input tar - profit.

Answer 2

tar zcf 10000_files.tgz `ls -1 | head -n 10000`