On Thursday, Feb 1st 2007 at 10:14 -0500, quoth linuxmaillists@charter.net:
=>On Thursday 01 February 2007 09:49, Steven W. Orr wrote: =>> =>Delete the directory or move it then do your tar ball. =>> =>> What a horrible answer! => =>There is nothing horrible about my answer. It did not tell =>him what he wanted to know about excluding but it did tell =>him how to accomplish his objective, because he does not =>want to save that tmp directory anyway.
Sorry, I disagree. Please don't take this personally, but when I post to a list with potentially trillions of readers, I try to answer the question that's asked. If someone can't figure out how to put on a raincoat, I don't tell him to stay in out of the rain. Would your answer have been different if instead of "tmp" he had his directory named "important_stuff"?