How to exclude a dir. with tar

[Martin Marques]

linuxmaillists at charter.net escribió:
> On Thursday 01 February 2007 09:32, Guillaume wrote:
>> I have a directory to save located in a home dir, but
>> inside it a temp dir I dont want to save. I try the
>> --exclude option of tar to discard this one, but it don't
>> seem to work.

Send the exact command you are using to tar the directory.

>> Someone can help me?
> 
> Delete the directory or move it then do your tar ball.

Sorry to say, but that's stupid.

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