Tar Question
Bob McClure Jr
robertmcclure at earthlink.net
Tue Sep 7 21:01:09 UTC 2004
Please don't top post.
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 01:51:36PM -0700, Nguyen, Minh wrote:
> Try:
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> tar cvfzX ${TAR_FILE} ${EXCLUDE} .
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> where EXCLUDE=/www/test
Umm, I don't think so. From "man tar":
-X, --exclude-from FILE
exclude files listed in FILE
You'd do better to
tar cvf ${TAR_FILE} `ls /www/*|fgrep -v /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; redhat-install-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Tar Question
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> Is there a way to create a tar file and exclude a specific directory that is within the directory you want to tar?
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> 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/
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> Thanks!
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> Darryl
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