On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:35:42 -0400 Kenneth Prugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:28:36 -0700 > Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does something like > > '--exclude "/home/user/.*"' work with tar? > > > > - Grant > > Yes you may exclude files from being included. From the tar man page: > > --exclude PATTERN exclude files based upon PATTERN > > -X, --exclude-from FILE exclude files listed in FILE However, don't exclude files you want, such as .bash*, .xsession, and so on. Generally these files aren't large and are important to the private storage of uesr-specific info for many programs. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
