I've been trying to create a tar file which contains everything in our website except files in subdirectories called "message".
First, I created an exclude file this way: # find . -type f -print | egrep 'message*' > dlcmessages When I cat the dlcmessages file, I see all of the message files, so I assume it assembled the file properly. Now, I'm trying to run the tar command. I've used this: # tar -cvf dlctar.tar --exclude-file=dlcmessages . It starts the process without any hiccups, but it doesn't appear to exclude the message files that I want to have excluded. I've also tried # tar -cvfX dlctar.tar exclude . with no success. According to the documentation I've read, including man tar, this *should* work, but it isn't. What am I doing wrong? _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
