Re: excluding files w/ tar (retraction)

2005-06-03 Thread Winston Smith
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:48:00PM -0400, Winston Smith wrote: One way to test exclude patterns is with tar -c --exclude=pattern includedirectorys | tar -t - Unfortunately, I didn't run such a test before responding to the original poster, and now that I have I would like to retract my

Re: excluding files w/ tar (retraction)

2005-06-02 Thread Winston Smith
One way to test exclude patterns is with tar -c --exclude=pattern includedirectorys | tar -t - Unfortunately, I didn't run such a test before responding to the original poster, and now that I have I would like to retract my previous posts on the subject. Sorry! The examples below show that