On Tue, 31 May 2011 11:39:41 +0200, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 31/05/2011 11:23, Marian Hettwer a C)crit : >>> That is a GNU extension. You can work this around with find(1) and the >>> tar(1)'s '-I' option. > > Also > tar cf /foo.tar /bar/!(folder|other_folder) > using plain ksh > that looks nice. >> bsdtar from the FreeBSD project supports --exclude too. >> The OP could as well install gnu tar from packages. bsdtar doens't seem >> to exist... >> >> At least that's what I do at work (Debian, Solaris, OpenBSD env). >> It's a pain to walk around every nifty details of different unixes... > > I'm wondering where does that logic stop... do you also install GNU ls > to get colors?
Obviously not. I'm talking about shell scripts which should work in a multi unix environment. Namely, in my env, Debian, Solaris and OpenBSD. I tend to install gnu sed and gnu grep and gnu diff on all 3 named systems. I actually see nothing bad about it. Not at all. Cheers, Marian
