On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:23:16AM +0200, Marian Hettwer wrote:
> On Tue, 31 May 2011 10:53:58 +0200, LEVAI Daniel <l...@ecentrum.hu>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:42:24 +0300, Michael Sioutis wrote:
> >> Hello!
> >>
> >> I can't find it in the man page, and it seems it is not supported (?)
> >> I am trying to backup some folders and want to exclude some and nth
> >> will work. I've tried:
> >> --exclude=/folder/
> >> --exclude="/folder/
> >> --exclude /folder
> >> --exclude "folder"
> >>
> >> I will get an error: "--exclude... directory doesn't exist".
> >>
> >> Excluding will work in Linux.
> >>
> > That is a GNU extension. You can work this around with find(1) and the
> > tar(1)'s '-I' option.
> >
> >
>
> bsdtar from the FreeBSD project supports --exclude too.
> The OP could as well install gnu tar from packages. bsdtar doens't seem
> to exist...
>
> At least that's what I do at work (Debian, Solaris, OpenBSD env).
> It's a pain to walk around every nifty details of different unixes...
>
> Cheers,
> Marian
$ pax -vw -f t.tar -x ustar -s /skip.this// .
Should be portable...
-Otto
