use tar -xvf *.tar
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Yasin
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On Fri, 28 May 1999, Doug McLaren wrote:
> Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 20:51:23 -0500
> From: Doug McLaren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Robert Giles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: tar question
>
> On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 04:17:06PM -0600, Robert Giles wrote:
>
> | 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?
>
> The --exclude option is only found in GNU tar, but that's what Linux
> uses, so you're in luck!
>
> What you're looking for is :
>
> --exclude=\*.bz2
>
> The = is needed, and the * must be quoted or else the shell will try
> to expand it, which is probably not what you want.
>
> If you have multiple things to exclude, you can put multiple --exclude
> directives in there, or use the --exclude-from=FILE syntax.
>
> --
> Doug McLaren, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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