using tar

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 14.06.2005 schrieb yahootintin.11730620 at bloglines.com um
0:24:

> i'm using tar to gzip some directories like this:
>   tar cvzf ~/foo.tar.gz
> /foo
> 
> this tars everything in the foo directory.  but i want it to tar everything
> in the foo directory except for the bar subdirectory (eg. /foo/bar).  i've
> looked at the man pages and can't figure out how the exclude flag works.

tar czvf ~/foo.tar.gz --exclude=/foo/bar* /foo

or

tar czv --exclude=/foo/bar* -f /foo.tar.gz /foo

Alexander
 

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