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On Sunday 29 February 2004 10:28 pm, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:
Ahhhh...I get it now. I have to create a text file with the directories
listed in it, and refer tar to the file. Thanks!
In the first place, you can just pass --exclude multiple times, but
this quickly grows tiresome. There's a better way.
From the command line, type:
$ info tar
This will bring up the tar documentation. Search for "exclude" (type
'/exclude<return>'). You may have to repeat this step. You'll find:
`--exclude-from=FILE'
`-X FILE'
Similar to `--exclude', except `tar' will use the list of patterns
in the file FILE.
I suspect this is what you want.
-- Lars
On Feb 29, 2004, at 5:53 PM, Charles Howse wrote:
> 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.
- --
Charles Howse
Jackson, TN
Registered Linux user # 347576 (
http://counter.li.org)
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