On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 at 3:05pm, Oliver Fuchs wrote: :I want to tar the whole / tree but want to exclude the /dev directory. In :the man pages I only found how to exclude single files. Is there a chance :to exclude a whole directory using the tar command?
Not to start the whole info vs man thing again, but 'info tar' gives a whole lot more detail than 'man tar'. (I detest info; I particularly detest the tar info, which requires multiple levels of digging to find anything.) I think what you're looking for is "--exclude==PATTERN" which excludes files (remember that, in UN*X, everything's a file, including directories) which match the pattern. I always substitute 'v' for 'c' the first time I run a tar command, to make sure it's going to do what I expect! Patrick -- Patrick Wiseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux user #17943 *Google First, Ask Later* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
