From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 13 8:39:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C38F137B71D for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 08:39:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97] ident=root) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 14crpC-000G5L-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 16:39:06 +0000 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f2DGd6R00414 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 16:39:06 GMT (envelope-from jcm) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 16:39:06 +0000 From: j mckitrick To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: getting EXCLUDE to work with tar Message-ID: <20010313163906.B344@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I am tring to avoid backing up all of my browser files and such when I do a backup. But -X excludefile doesn't seem to work. In this file, I have ~/netscape/cache ~/netscape/nmmail etc and I have also tried these entries with terminating '/' and even '/*' but these directories keep getting tar'ed. What am I doing wrong? jm -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathon McKitrick -- jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org To Microsoft: "Your tyranny I was part of, is now cracking on every side. Now your own life is in danger. Your Empire is on fire." Front 242 ------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message