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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:650 comp.unix.questions:31975 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!think.com!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!ai-lab!hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Restoring with gnutar (HELP) Date: 9 Mar 1993 10:47:53 GMT Organization: /etc/organization Lines: 22 Message-ID: <1nhskpINN654@life.ai.mit.edu> References: <1n2395INN121@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.ai.mit.edu In article <1n2395INN121@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> vax@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Vax) writes: > > But I could not get tar to 'exclude' these directory subtrees! An example: tar -cvf foo . tar --exclude /tmp -xvf foo Why doesn't this work? Try: tar -cvf foo . tar --exclude ./tmp -xvf foo This is the usual failure mode. -- \ / Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu /\ \ PGP public key available on request. MIME, AMS, NextMail accepted. Scheme White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride!