I applied this locally, but what's a test case? $ mkdir -p boing/subb/ping $ tar cvf boing.tar boing --exclude sub boing/ boing/subb/ boing/subb/ping/ $ tar tvf boing.tar drwxr-xr-x landley/landley 0 2020-06-09 09:50 boing/ drwxr-xr-x landley/landley 0 2020-06-09 09:50 boing/subb/ drwxr-xr-x landley/landley 0 2020-06-09 09:50 boing/subb/ping/ $ tar cvf boing.tar boing --exclude subb boing/ boing/subb/ boing/subb/ping/
That's the host tar? Exact match on the name of the subdir... (I really don't use --exclude much. I vaguely recall working out what it meant when I implemented it, but I appear to be misremembering. I just confirmed file vs dir doesn't make a difference here...) Rob _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list Toybox@lists.landley.net http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
