Re: tar

[Shao Zhang <shao@cia.com.au>]

Hi,
	You will need tar -X.

	You can also try something like this:

	find /home -type d ! -name shao -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 | xargs tar cvf home.tar

	which will tar all the dirs in /home except the dir /home/shao.

	Hope this helps.

Shao.

zdrysdal@diagnostic.co.nz [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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