On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 05:58:42PM +1000, Alister Waller wrote:
> I wish to do a backup using TAR but want to exclude a directory, is there a
> way to do this??
`--exclude=PATTERN'
Causes `tar' to ignore files that match the PATTERN.
It handles files and directories. Note that PATTERN is a shell globbing
pattern, not a regexp. See `info tar' for more detail.
Cheers,
John
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