Date: 09 Nov 2003 15:01:39 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: rodperson@comcast.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem with tar on 5.1? Message-ID: <44u15d5n18.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <200311081922.47819.rodperson@comcast.net> References: <200311081922.47819.rodperson@comcast.net>
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Rod Person <rodperson@comcast.net> writes: > according to the man page for tar --exclude-from and -X are supported. > This command does not do what I expected it to do: > tar -cz -f/usr/local/tmp/RoddieRodHome.tgz /home/roddierod > --exclude-from=/home/roddierod/.pan > > Now I would expect that this would create a tar gzip file called > RoddieRodHome.tgz and tar ball of my home with every thing but the files in > .pan. But it does include the .pan directory. > > Is the --exclude-from not supported even though it is in the manpage? I think you're confusing --exclude with --exclude-from. What you typed should have excluded all of the files that were listed in a file named "/home/roddierod/.pan".
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