Quoting Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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. You have either just discovered a bug in tar or its manual page. I couldn't get it to work properly with the --exclude PATTERN option either.
I'd suggest using cpio instead. find /dir/one /dir/two | grep -v '/\.' | cpio --create Do please check the manual page for the exact cpio options, there are hordes of them. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
