Re: I can't get tar to exclude files!!

[bartm@antispam_cs_dot_KULeuven.ac.be (Bart Maerten)]

In article <[🔎] 3.0.1.32.19980522124419.0085fd30@pop.mindspring.com>, admaster@mindspring.com (Admaster Communications) writes:
|> I'm running Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 and I've tried many permutations of
|> 
|> 
|> tar -zcvf test.tar * --exclude=leave_me_out.txt

Change the 'c' with a 'x'.  'c' is to create a tar file.  'x' to extract. 

Look at  "man tar". 

	Bart.


|> The file I ask to be excluded is reliably INcluded!!  What is the correct
|> syntax???
|> 
|> Thanks.
|> 
|> Adam Nelson
|> 


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