On Thu, 31 May 2007 13:37, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > 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.
This thread discusses the problem; http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=70566 Seems that you have to specify the excludes in your options before tar parses the arguments. Cheers Ross Drummond
