Re: A simple question about wildcards with tar

2001-10-04 Thread Yvonne Kelly
-Original Message- From:Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:Wed, 03 Oct 2001 13:57:58 -0700 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: A simple question about wildcards with tar Greetings, I'm trying to make a backup with tar, but there are certain files that I don&#

Re: A simple question about wildcards with tar

2001-10-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 01:57:58PM -0700, Walter Landry wrote: > I'm trying to make a backup with tar, but there are certain files that > I don't want to include in the backup. Reading the info documentation > about tar, it says that I can use the --exclude=PATTERN option. So if > I type > > t

A simple question about wildcards with tar

2001-10-03 Thread Walter Landry
Greetings, I'm trying to make a backup with tar, but there are certain files that I don't want to include in the backup. Reading the info documentation about tar, it says that I can use the --exclude=PATTERN option. So if I type tar -cvf backup.tar --exclude='*.fig' * then it excludes all fi