tar czf tarball.tar.gz --files-from /data/results/fileslist 

 filelist below:

 /data/results/a/file1
 /data/results/a/b/file2
 /data/results/a/b/c/file3
 /data/results/a/b/c/d/file4
 /data/results/a/test1
 /data/results/a/b/test2
 /data/results/a/b/c/test3
 /data/results/a/b/c/d/test4

 You end up with:

 [root@offline01 results]# ls -ld tarball.tar.gz
 -rw-rw-r--  1 root users 273 Dec  7 11:18 tarball.tar.gz