On Thu, 31 May 2007 10:41, Roger Searle wrote: <snip> > --exclude /home/roger/dvd \ > --exclude /home/roger/software \ > --exclude "/home/roger/.mozilla/" \ > --exclude "/home/roger/.mozilla-thunderbird/" \
> Cheers, > Roger As you are using the back-slash to escape the end of line character it should not be necessary to use the ---exclude option on each subsequent line. Try adding the follwing line to your script before the tar command; shopt -s dotglob The dotglob suggestion is of the "try it and see if it works" variety rather than authoritative advice. Cheers Ross Drummond
