How can I group files and create archives accordingly?

Question

How can I group files and create archives accordingly?

I have 10,000 files in a folder (no sub-folders) and I want to create 10 zip or tar.gz archives. This means every archive has 1,000 files.

How can I do this in Linux?

Answer 1

Use find to get all the filenames, and redirect the output to a file outside of the directory. Use split to split that file into 10 pieces. At that point, check to see what option the archiving tool has to read a list of files either from a file or from standard input, and use it accordingly.