A Linux shell script that shows find and tar with multiple image filenames

As a brief “note to self,” this is the Bourne shell script I use to copy images from my Drupal 8 sites directory to the same directory on my new “Static Drupal” website:

tarFile=newImagesFromDrupalSitesDir.tar
drupalHtmlDir=/drupal8/html
staticHtmlDir=/staticDrupal/html

cd $drupalHtmlDir
rm $tarFile 2> /dev/null

# create a tar file containing all new images
find sites -type f \( -name "*.jpg" -o -name "*.jpeg"  -o -name "*.png" -o -name "*.gif"  \) -mtime -2 -print0 | xargs -0 tar rvf $tarFile

# TODO make sure the tar file exists
if [ -e $tarFile ]
then
    echo "tar file exists, moving it to $staticHtmlDir"
    mv $tarFile $staticHtmlDir
    cd $staticHtmlDir
    tar xvf $tarFile
    rm $tarFile
else
    echo "POSSIBLE ERROR: the tar file DOES NOT exist"
fi

I changed the three initial variable names, but the rest of the script shows one possible way to copy all of the images in the original sites directory into the new Static Drupal directory. If you wanted to see things such as how to use multiple filenames with the Linux find command, or how to use the find command to create a tar file, I hope this example is helpful.