Advanced tar question
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Hi,
How can I pass a *list* of excluded *directories* to tar? Would it be
delimited by whitespace, comma, quoted or what? I'll ultimately want to
create this list as a variable.
I also want to preserve existing ownership and permissions.
I'm using the following command at this point, but I can't find anything in
man tar about excluding more than one pattern...or did I miss something?
[charles@moe charles]$ tar cvCfz /home/charles /tmp/my_home_dir.tgz .
- --exclude /home/charles/.giFT/
- --
Charles Howse
Jackson, TN
Registered Linux user # 347576 (http://counter.li.org)
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