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From: Zenin <zenin@best.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: tar - excluding files
Date: 8 Jul 1997 03:03:38 GMT
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Matt McLeod <mjm@SPAMMERS.hna.BUGGER.com.OFF.au> wrote:
> I've tried it as:  --exclude "the various stuff I don't want backed up", as
> --exclude dev --exclude proc, etc, and also as --exclude "dev/*" --exclude
> "proc*", etc, but it insists on dumping them to tape anyway
	>snip<

	Have you tryed:
		--exclude '/dev/*'
	or
		--exclude '*dev/*'
	Both work for me.

-- 
-Zenin
 zenin@best.com