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Date:      Mon, 07 Oct 1996 12:51:07 +0200
From:      Peter Olsson <pol@leissner.se>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   HELP: exclude doesn't work in tar?
Message-ID:  <3.0b26.32.19961007125105.0069ee30@lda>

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I run 2.1.0-RELEASE.

I have tried various syntaxes, including among others:
tar cvfX test.tar excludefile *
tar cvXf test.tar excludefile *
tar -c -v -f test.tar -X excludefile *
tar -c -v -X excludefile -f test.tar *
tar -c -v -f test.tar --exclude-from excludefile *
tar -c -v -f test.tar --exclude exclude.me *

In excludefile I have put lines with filenames, I have tried
absolute filenames, only filenames without path and ./filenames.

Nothing works. The named file is never excluded.

What am I doing wrong???

Thanks for your time! Please cc me, my mailsystem (or someone on the way)
has the ugly habit of truncating the digests.
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Peter Olsson                   Email: pol@leissner.se
Leissner Data AB, Sweden       Phone: +46 520 200 00
                               Fax:   +46 520 200 89



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