On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 12:08:08 +0800, Chang[linuxism] wrote: > given the following directory structure: > > /home > /home/httpd/html > /home/httpd/html/linux-sxs > /home/httpd/icons > > Is it possible to tar backup everything in /home except > /home/httpd/html/linux-sxs? > > I tried: > > tar cvzfp /home/backup/linux.backup.tgz -T /tmp/filelist -X /tmp/xclude > > file /tmp/filelist: > /home/ > /etc/ > > file /tmp/filelist: > /home/httpd/html/linux-sxs/ > > but tar still include the linux-sxs sub-dir. > > I'm glad you asked this, because I couldn't get it to work a while back and gave up. I tried again this morning and found that I need to do this with the exclude file:
/home/httpd/html/linux-sxs/* Just add the asterisk to tell it what files (all files). For the include file, I did not use the asterisk. Anita _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
