"Richard Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've been trying to create a tar file which contains everything in our
> website except files in subdirectories called "message".
[...]
>
> According to the documentation I've read, including man tar, this
> *should* work, but it isn't. What am I doing wrong?
The info documentation is usually more complete. Here's what I did:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] anguiano]$ ls -lR a
a:
total 4
-rw-rw-r-- 1 anguiano anguiano 0 May 27 09:39 a
-rw-rw-r-- 1 anguiano anguiano 0 May 27 09:39 b
-rw-rw-r-- 1 anguiano anguiano 0 May 27 09:39 c
drwxrwxr-x 2 anguiano anguiano 4096 May 27 09:41 t
a/t:
total 0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 anguiano anguiano 0 May 27 09:39 message
-rw-rw-r-- 1 anguiano anguiano 0 May 27 09:41 message01
[EMAIL PROTECTED] anguiano]$ tar cvfz a.tar.gz a --exclude "message*"
a/
a/a
a/b
a/c
a/t/
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Ricardo Anguiano
http://www.codesourcery.com
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