Mon, 13 Apr 2015 16:15:42 +0200 Petter Adsen <pet...@synth.no> écrivait :
hi Petter, > I've been trying to make a tarball of my home directory, but I want to > exclude ~/.cache. First I tried '--exclude="~/.cache", but it didn't > work. Neither did '--exclude="~/.cache/*". Can you send the command you used ? It will be easier to find what's wrong. > > I got it working by creating an empty file in ~/.cache and using the > filename as an argument to "--exclude-tag-under", but what was I doing > wrong when trying to use "--exclude"? Maybe the prefix you used (~). Try with tar -cvf /dev/null --exclude=.cache $HOME | less Redirecting your archive to /dev/null is a way to make a dry run. > > Petter, curious Jean-Marc <jean-m...@6jf.be>
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