On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, wes wrote: > put the j before the f.
Yep. The -f option expects the next token to be a filename. > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Keith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I'm trying to use the tar command in a BASH shell and want to exclude >> files. >> If I use this command: >> tar --exclude=._* -cvfj oldemail.tbz bzip2 >> >> tar creates an archive named >> j >> -- Paul Heinlein <> [email protected] <> http://www.madboa.com/ _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
