Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 20:29:35 -0700 From: Hemal Pandya <hemalpandya@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: two questions Message-ID: <50be591b04062420296611a8d5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1793.192.168.1.1.1088132789.squirrel@192.168.1.1> References: <1793.192.168.1.1.1088132789.squirrel@192.168.1.1>
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On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 23:06:29 -0400 (EDT), Michael Sharp <ms.probsd@org> wrote: > > I'm having a brain freeze tonight and apparently forgot some > basic UNIX commands.. > > what is the command to remove the file "--directory" > > rm *directory* = nope > rm "*directory*" = nope > rm \-\-\directory = nope > rm -i * = nope and dosent even see the file rm ./-directory > > Also, if I'm in / and want to tar the entire filesystem > EXCLUDING the > directory jail ( /jail ) what would be the switches to tar? > Lookup --exclude in man tar. You want : $ tar cvf file.tar --exclude jail . > Dana >
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