Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:51:27 -0700 From: "Peter" <fbsdq@peterk.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: tar --exclude not working Message-ID: <836b68e817a2b27b77ab82dbfadf45ca.squirrel@pop.pknet.net>
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Hello, Ran into a weird issue where the 'exclude' pattern to tar isn't matching correctly: pkbsd:$find ./ ./ ./file ./dir1 ./dir1/file ./dir2 ./dir2/file This is expected: pkbsd:$tar Jcvf /tmp/tar.test ./ a . a ./file a ./dir1 a ./dir2 a ./dir2/file a ./dir1/file This is correct: pkbsd:$tar --exclude './dir2/file' -Jcvf /tmp/tar.test ./ a . a ./file a ./dir1 a ./dir2 a ./dir1/file Here I want to _only_ exlude './file', NOT ./dir?/file pkbsd:$tar --exclude './file' -Jcvf /tmp/tar.test ./ a . a ./dir1 a ./dir2 Anyway to exclude just './file' ? If I specify full path, it works as expected: pkbsd:$tar --exclude "home/peter/t/blah/file" -Jcvf /tmp/tar.test /home/peter/t/blah tar: Removing leading '/' from member names a home/peter/t/blah a home/peter/t/blah/dir1 a home/peter/t/blah/dir2 a home/peter/t/blah/dir2/file a home/peter/t/blah/dir1/file Why not relative './file' ? ['\./file' also does not work]. ]Peter[
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