Hi, I have some backup scripts for (individually) copying data, email,
home, making use of --exclude lines to ignore certain folders I don't
want to copy. Generally works really well except that hidden folders
specified in --exclude are ignored.
For example
--exclude /home/roger/dvd \
--exclude /home/roger/software \
--exclude "/home/roger/.mozilla/" \
--exclude "/home/roger/.mozilla-thunderbird/" \
nicely ignores anything in the software folder (a link to a partition
with several gb of files) and anything on a DVD, but insists on
INCLUDING .mozilla-thunderbird etc.
--exclude lines with or without quotes - no difference.
--exclude=/home/roger/.mozilla - no difference.
How can I get tar to honour --exclude with hidden folders? Can anyone
point me in the right direction? aside from man tar or info tar or
google which I have already tried.
Cheers,
Roger
