Re: tar

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

Well..... it worked FUNNY.

$ tar --exclude Kraftwerk-Spacelab.mp3 -cf  - . | (cd ../temp/ && tar xvfp -)
./
./Kraftwerk - Metropolis.mp3
./Kraftwerk - The Telephone Call.mp3
./Kraftwerk-The_Man_Machine.mp3
./Kraftwerk-airwaves.mp3
./--exclude
$ ls
--exclude                           Kraftwerk-Spacelab.mp3
Kraftwerk - Metropolis.mp3          Kraftwerk-The_Man_Machine.mp3
Kraftwerk - The Telephone Call.mp3  Kraftwerk-airwaves.mp3
$ ls -l
total 57947
-rw-rw-r--   1 sarnold  sarnold  32368640 Sep 26 23:26 --exclude
-rw-r--r--   1 sarnold  sarnold   5752188 Aug 30 05:22 Kraftwerk - Metropolis.mp3
-rw-r--r--   1 sarnold  sarnold   6737316 Aug 30 05:22 Kraftwerk - The Telephone Call.mp3
-rw-r--r--   1 sarnold  sarnold   5626148 Aug 30 05:22 Kraftwerk-Spacelab.mp3
-rw-r--r--   1 sarnold  sarnold   5249985 Aug 30 05:22 Kraftwerk-The_Man_Machine.mp3
-rw-r--r--   1 sarnold  sarnold   3362273 Aug 30 05:22 Kraftwerk-airwaves.mp3

See that file "--exclude" ? Wierd voodoo. All the same, it didn't copy
Kraftwerk-Spacelab.mp3.

Hmm.

On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 11:27:44PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
> 
> On 27-Sep-99 Seth R Arnold wrote:
> >>From man tar:
> > 
> >       --exclude FILE
> >               exclude file FILE
> > 
> >       -X, --exclude-from FILE
> >               exclude files listed in FILE
> > 
> 
> Can you verify that this actually works? I tried it a couple of weeks ago and
> it seemed to include the files I excluded anyway.
> 
> 
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> E-Mail: George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com>
> Date: 26-Sep-99
> Time: 23:25:54
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