Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 08:50:52 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Matthew West <mwest@uct.ac.za> Cc: Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: excluding a file/dir from a tar file Message-ID: <20000801085052.P4854@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000801142223.A93938@apotheosis.org.za>; from mwest@uct.ac.za on Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 02:22:24PM %2B0200 References: <3986BD05.3D19504D@wmptl.com> <20000801142223.A93938@apotheosis.org.za>
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* Matthew West <mwest@uct.ac.za> [000801 04:31] wrote: > On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 08:05:25AM -0400, Nathan Vidican wrote: > > I know the flag is --exclude, but where exactly do I put the flag in? > > Could someone post an example of a working version of this: > > > > tar cvzf --exclude /server --exclude /mail /server/master.tgz / > > The -f flag takes the argument immediately after it to be the filename, whcih > is why you're ending up with "--exclude" tar files. > > This should work: > > tar -cvzf /server/master.tgz --exclude /server --exclude /mail / > or even > tar -cvz --exclude /server --exclude -f /server/master.tgz / Just a non-obvious observation, I'm quite certain that you can't mix the non '-' flags with '--' flags: tar czvf file.tgz --exclude /server /path won't work, while: tar -czvf file.tgz --exclude /server /path should. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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