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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!jpunix.com!not-for-mail From: perry@jpunix.com (John A. Perry) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: tar --exclude doesn't work. Date: 2 Sep 1994 11:19:52 -0500 Organization: J. P. and Associates Lines: 28 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <347jb8$cjm@jpunix.com> References: <33sr8j$1p0@jpunix.com> <34619a$dvq@hermes.unt.edu> <HB.94Sep2165930@beauvoir.cs.tu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: jpunix.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) hb@cs.tu-berlin.de (Holger Bruehl) writes: >In article jackson@replicant.csci.unt.edu (Bruce Jackson) writes: >> You are using this option incorrectly. The argument to "--exclude" >> needs to be a file containing the files or regular expressions that >> match the files you do not want to archive. To exclude /user/usenet >> just put "/user/usenet" on a line in a file and then use the filename >> as the argument to --exclude. >Sorry for the question, but what is the difference between --exclude and >--exclude-from ? If you invoked tar --help there are different options. > > tar --help > [...] > --exclude FILE exclude file FILE > -X, --exclude-from FILE exclude files listed in FILE I tried both ways> I set up a tar command using --exclude FILENAME and it still didn't work. Then I tried the same thing using --exclude-from FILENAME and it worked. I want to thank everyone that bothered to respond. -- John A. Perry - perry@jpunix.com Finger perry@jpunix.com for PGP 2.6 public key.