Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 21:10:31 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Philipp_Gasch=FCtz?= <pg@philipp.de.com> To: "Erin Fortenberry" <efortenb@sdccd.cc.ca.us>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: AW: tar - need to excluding directories Message-ID: <BOELLCONIBKCLEHPNCDDKEDMCOAA.pg@philipp.de.com> In-Reply-To: <BBDEEDD2EB67D311A0240008C74B9345129C3F@ntxmidcity.sdccd.cc.ca.us>
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...yes it will! one file/dir per line -------- bash# cat /usr/local/etc/backup.exclude /tmp /dev /proc /mnt /lost+found bash# -------- /usr/bin/tar -cpPf /dev/nsa0 -X /usr/local/etc/backup.exclude / /pg > > I need to tarball everything from the root but I need to exclude my > /home/backup directory. I looked through the man pages and found; > > -X file > --exclude-from file Exclude files listed in file. > > Does anyone know if this will exclude that directory and all of its > subdirectories? > > > Thanks, > > Erin > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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