Tar Question

[Margaret Doll]

Use "--exclude  FILE " in the tar command.  Read the man pages on tar.

man tar

On Tuesday, September 7, 2004, at 04:45 PM, Darryl W. DeLao Jr. wrote:

> 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!
>
> Darryl
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