Tar Question

[gerrynix]

See bottom post as well... ;)
Try:

    tar cvfzX ${TAR_FILE} ${EXCLUDE} . 

where EXCLUDE=/www/test

-----Original Message-----
From: Darryl W. DeLao Jr. [mailto:ddelao at oucpm.org]
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 1:46 PM
To: rhn-users at redhat.com; redhat-list at redhat.com;
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Subject: Tar Question

Is there a way to create a tar file and exclude a specific directory
that is within the directory you want to tar?

For example, I have a directory called /www/ and in that directory is
another directory called  /www/test/  and I want to tar up the /www/
directory but  I do not want the tar to include the /www/test/
directory but I do want the tar to include all the other
sub-directories within /www/

Thanks!

Darryl

In the "standard" version of tar, I use the X modifier... followed by
an exclude_file (plain ol' ASCII) containing relative pathnames of
what to exclude. Works with c - x - t. Check the man page for the GNU
version.
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