Re: GNUtar doesn't fit my needs...

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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 17:05:36 +0100

Thank you for the trick, rakesh.

But subdir1/ doesn't do the trick as subdir does !

I'm not sure to well understand...

Regards.

JLB :-)

rakesh sharma wrote:

>Jean-Luc BEAUDET <beaudet@cyber.kodak.com> wrote in message news:<3FBB4A10.9080200@cyber.kodak.com>...
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Working under SOLARIS 5.6 i'm trying to GNUtar the content of a whole
>>dir BUT one subdir.
>>
>>Assuming the following
>>
>>/my/main/dir/subdir1
>>..................../subdir2
>>..................../subdir3
>>..................../subdir4
>>
>>I'd like to GNUtar /my/main/dir with all subdirs BUT subdir1
>>
>>I tried
>># tar -c -v -z -P -f /tmp/backup.tgz -X /tmp/exclude.tar /my/main/dir
>>
>>-P to keep leading "/"
>>-X pointing to the file containing the files to exclude
>># cat /tmp/exclude.tar
>>/my/main/dir/subdir1/*
>>#
>>
>>The command achieve with no errors, but subdir1 and all included in keep
>>on archiving !!!
>>
>>I tried modifying the content of /tmp/exclude.tar as
>>my/main/dir/* - that is no leading / -
>>BUT the result is the same.
>>
>>Any help welcome.
>>
>>JLB :-)
>>
>
>use in the exclude file:
>subdir1/
>
>instead of,
>my/main/dir/subdir1/*
>

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