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Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 15:11:45 +0200
From: Nicolas LS <nlsn@free.fr>
To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Tar and -X (exclude)
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Hello

Tar in FreeBSD-Stable 4.3 is buggy, the -X option (exclude) doesn't work
with directory, it had been fixed in gnutar 1.13.x

[nlsn@asterix nlsn]$ tar --version
GNU tar version 1.11.2

Thanks

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 Nicolas Le Scouarnec                                           
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