Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 19:17:09 +0200 From: Matthew West <mwest@uct.ac.za> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: excluding a file/dir from a tar file Message-ID: <20000801191709.A4001@apotheosis.org.za> In-Reply-To: <20000801085052.P4854@fw.wintelcom.net>; from "Alfred Perlstein" on Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 08:50:52AM References: <3986BD05.3D19504D@wmptl.com> <20000801142223.A93938@apotheosis.org.za> <20000801085052.P4854@fw.wintelcom.net>
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Whoops! Quite right; tar will think that "--exclude" is a file to be added to the archive if you don't use "-czvf". -- mwest@uct.ac.za On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 08:50:52AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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