Re: tar & exclude options

To: Nils Rennebarth <nils@ipe.uni-stuttgart.de>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: tar & exclude options
From: "Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu>
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 09:41:06 +0300
Message-id: <[🔎] 199806050741.JAA00836@eyry.econ.iastate.edu>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 05 Jun 1998 12:33:46 +0200." <[🔎] 19980605123346.15330@ipe.uni-stuttgart.de>

Nils wrote,

> try
> 
> tar -zcv -f hawktar980603 . -X 'News*' -X 'www*' -X 'Office40*'
> 
> (the quoting is to keep the shell from globbing '*')

ack, I think I see.  News isn't treated the same wauy as it would if listed as 
a regular file, so only News/ is omitted, but News/abc and the like don't get 
omitted?  ugh.

thanks

rick


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