Jeff, Thanks for your input and suggestions. And yeah, I made a couple of typos in my earlier message which probably caused some confusion.
Anyway, I redid the "find" command to look like this: $ find . -type d -print | grep "message" > dlcmessages Then I did this for the tar command: $ tar -cvfX dlctar.tar --exclude-from=dlcmessages . and it worked! Not perfectly, but close enough for government work. I also installed the GNU version of tar. I think I've installed the GNU version of just about every major tool on this Solaris computer that I've used. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
