Your message dated Mon, 4 Feb 2019 10:17:12 -0700 (MST) with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line --exclude is position sensitive has caused the Debian Bug report #655895, regarding tar: Tar ignores --exclude= option to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: tar Version: 1.26-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I ran tar * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? tar cf /tmp/foo --exclude home/njh/spider/cgi-bin/search/cache --exclude "mnt/c/Users/Owner/Documents/My Webs/w32-clamav/downloads --exclude-backups --exclude=\*.mp3 --exclude=\*.wav " `cat usr/local/lib/dirs/8gstick` tar tvf foo | fgrep Rockville |fgrep mp3 * What was the outcome of this action? Gave some output * What outcome did you expect instead? Should have given none because I said to exclude mp3 files. *** End of the template - remove these lines *** -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages tar depends on: ii libc6 2.13-24 tar recommends no packages. Versions of packages tar suggests: ii bzip2 1.0.6-1 ii ncompress <none> ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20110809-3 -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---As noted in a reply, the --exclude option is position sensitive. There is an extended section in the tar info pages talking about the interactions of the various exclude options and variants that's worth reading. Bdale
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