Advanced tar question
Lars Kellogg-Stedman
lars at oddbit.com
Mon Mar 1 04:28:46 UTC 2004
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.
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