How to exclude directory if not empty?

[EloB]

I'm trying to zip and passing both directory and files makes the archive bad.

fd -p -g "$PWD/packages/*/dist/**/*" -X tar --zstd -cf my.tar.zst {}

The problem by doing so is that tar will append the files twice because I pass both file and directory.

Current behaviour

packages/hello/dist/empty-folder/
packages/hello/dist/something/
packages/hello/dist/something/a.txt
packages/hello/dist/something/b.txt

Wanted behaviour

packages/hello/dist/empty-folder/
packages/hello/dist/something/a.txt
packages/hello/dist/something/b.txt

[tmccombs]

you can use -t f to limit the output of fd to files.

[EloB]

Thanks for your reply. The problem is that I might want empty directories too. :)

[tavianator]

I don't think there's a way to get files + empty directories with one fd invocation. But for your concrete problem, you could try

$ fd -p -g "$PWD/packages/*/dist" -X tar --zstd -cf my.tar.zst {}

or

$ fd -p -g "$PWD/packages/*/dist/**/*" -X tar --no-recursion --zstd -cf my.tar.zst {}