Re: tar

[Seth R Arnold <sarnold@willamette.edu>]

>From man tar:

	--exclude FILE
              exclude file FILE

	-X, --exclude-from FILE
              exclude files listed in FILE

those helpful people at gnu! ;)

On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 01:37:59PM +1300, zdrysdal@diagnostic.co.nz wrote:
> Hi
> 
> what is needed in order to tell tar not to include specific
> files/directories?  i am intending to copy the /home directory off of one
> server and onto another but i do not want to copy everything in /home.
> 
> thanx
> 
> 
> 
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