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From: Erin Fortenberry <efortenb@sdccd.cc.ca.us>
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Subject: tar - need to excluding directories
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:16:22 -0700
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I need to tarball everything from the root but I need to exclude my
/home/backup directory. I looked through the man pages and found;

-X file
--exclude-from file     Exclude files listed in file.

Does anyone know if this will exclude that directory and all of its
subdirectories?


Thanks,

Erin

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