Date: 30 Nov 2004 19:26:51 -0500 From: Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com> To: freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsdtar '--exclude pattern' problems Message-ID: <1101860811.10293.5.camel@chaucer> In-Reply-To: <41AC7636.2050605@orchid.homeunix.org> References: <41AC7636.2050605@orchid.homeunix.org>
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On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 08:31, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I upgraded 5.2.1 to 5.3 recently and I'm trying to run my cron scripts
> which use tar utility (which defaults to bsdtar(1) on 5.3) and I can't
> figure out how to use '--exclude pattern' with it. It seems I'm
> missing something obvious here or bsdtar(1) is happily ignoring
> --exclude option.
>
> my system:
> FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p1 #4: Sat Nov 27 19:37:42 CET 2004
>
> here's what I try to run:
>
> orchid# /usr/bin/tar -czvf /home/root.backup/test.tar.gz -C /home . \
> --exclude "root.backup/*" --exclude "pub/*" --exclude "ncvs/*"
>
> I tried '-W exclude=pattern', too:
>
> orchid# /usr/bin/tar -czvf /home/root.backup/test.tar.gz -C /home . \
> -W exclude="root.backup/*" -W exclude="pub/*" -W exclude="ncvs/*"
>
> Both commands include all directories under /home. However using
> /usr/bin/gtar works as expected.
>
> Any help appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Karol
Here is an example that works for me:
tar -czf /usr/tmp/HOME.tar.gz \
--exclude home/mike/tmp/* \
--exclude home/mike/tmp?/* \
--exclude home/mike/moz/cache/* \
--exclude home/mike/sylmail \
--exclude home/mike/z/* \
/home/mike/*
You need to leave off the leading "/", as it has already been stripped
from the filename before the comparison. Took me some time to work this
out!
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