Re: tar question

[christ]

>Hi folks - I'm trying to create a tar of a directory tree,
>excluding all files with a *.bz2 extension.  I've tried "--exclude *.bz2"
>and "-X exclude-file" (where exclude-file contains "*.bz2").  Any quick
>way to accomplish this?

one way:

        tar cf blah.tar `find * \! -name \*.bz2`

from the root of the dir you want to tar up
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