Well..... it worked FUNNY. $ tar --exclude Kraftwerk-Spacelab.mp3 -cf - . | (cd ../temp/ && tar xvfp -) ./ ./Kraftwerk - Metropolis.mp3 ./Kraftwerk - The Telephone Call.mp3 ./Kraftwerk-The_Man_Machine.mp3 ./Kraftwerk-airwaves.mp3 ./--exclude $ ls --exclude Kraftwerk-Spacelab.mp3 Kraftwerk - Metropolis.mp3 Kraftwerk-The_Man_Machine.mp3 Kraftwerk - The Telephone Call.mp3 Kraftwerk-airwaves.mp3 $ ls -l total 57947 -rw-rw-r-- 1 sarnold sarnold 32368640 Sep 26 23:26 --exclude -rw-r--r-- 1 sarnold sarnold 5752188 Aug 30 05:22 Kraftwerk - Metropolis.mp3 -rw-r--r-- 1 sarnold sarnold 6737316 Aug 30 05:22 Kraftwerk - The Telephone Call.mp3 -rw-r--r-- 1 sarnold sarnold 5626148 Aug 30 05:22 Kraftwerk-Spacelab.mp3 -rw-r--r-- 1 sarnold sarnold 5249985 Aug 30 05:22 Kraftwerk-The_Man_Machine.mp3 -rw-r--r-- 1 sarnold sarnold 3362273 Aug 30 05:22 Kraftwerk-airwaves.mp3
See that file "--exclude" ? Wierd voodoo. All the same, it didn't copy Kraftwerk-Spacelab.mp3. Hmm. On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 11:27:44PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > On 27-Sep-99 Seth R Arnold wrote: > >>From man tar: > > > > --exclude FILE > > exclude file FILE > > > > -X, --exclude-from FILE > > exclude files listed in FILE > > > > Can you verify that this actually works? I tried it a couple of weeks ago and > it seemed to include the files I excluded anyway. > > > ---------------------------------- > E-Mail: George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 26-Sep-99 > Time: 23:25:54 > > This message was sent by XFMail > ---------------------------------- -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
