Jim Osborn wrote:
Well, more tar questions.
Firstly, I notice that trying to exclude files from being included in an archive doesn't seem to work. That is, no matter what variation of --exclude=FILE (omitting the equal sign, putting the exclude statement before or after the other list of files, including/omitting the leading / in the file's pathname) I try, the files still show up in the archive. FWIW, the list of files is generated by `find.'
Well, for some curious reason, I find only the german man page of tar. Thereafter, tar -X (exclude) expects a *file* that contains the names fo the "unwanted" files. (never tested this myself...) Juergen -- ========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann mail: brauki@cityweb.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu| /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ==========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>