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From: "Peter" <fbsdq@peterk.org>
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Subject: tar --exclude not working
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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[