On Thu, Jun 04, 1998 at 11:40:52AM -0400, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > I'm trying to create tar files less than 100Mb to fit on zip disks (by the > way, my rebate arrived last week, only a year and a half & a class action > suit late).
> > As I read the man page and info page, > > tar -zcv -f hawktar980603 . -X News -X www -X Office40 > > should tar the local directory to the new file hawktar980603 save for the > directories News, www, and Office40 > > however, it cheerfully includes all of these. I get the same results with an > --exclude-from exfiles, where exfiles lists these? am I missing somethign? try tar -zcv -f hawktar980603 . -X 'News*' -X 'www*' -X 'Office40*' (the quoting is to keep the shell from globbing '*') Nils -- *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------* | Quotes from the net: L> Linus Torvalds, W> Winfried Truemper | | L>this is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | W>Umh, oh. What do you mean by "special easter release"?. Will it quit | * W>working today and rise on easter? *
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