On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 18:41:50 +0200 Jean-Marc <jean-marc@6jf.be> wrote: > Mon, 13 Apr 2015 16:15:42 +0200 > Petter Adsen <petter@synth.no> écrivait : > > hi Petter, > > > I've been trying to make a tarball of my home directory, but I want > > to exclude ~/.cache. First I tried '--exclude="~/.cache", but it > > didn't work. Neither did '--exclude="~/.cache/*". > > Can you send the command you used ? > It will be easier to find what's wrong. > > > > > I got it working by creating an empty file in ~/.cache and using the > > filename as an argument to "--exclude-tag-under", but what was I > > doing wrong when trying to use "--exclude"? > > Maybe the prefix you used (~). > > Try with > > tar -cvf /dev/null --exclude=.cache $HOME | less That was, in essence, the command I used, and both you and Vincent are right, the "~" was not expanded. For some reason I was absolutely convinced that I had tried without it, but clearly I didn't. My shell history confirms this. So thank you, both, it is now working perfectly. :) Petter -- "I'm ionized" "Are you sure?" "I'm positive."
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