Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 19:22:47 -0500 From: Rod Person <rodperson@comcast.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: problem with tar on 5.1? Message-ID: <200311081922.47819.rodperson@comcast.net>
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according to the man page for tar --exclude-from and -X are supported. This command does not do what I expected it to do: tar -cz -f/usr/local/tmp/RoddieRodHome.tgz /home/roddierod --exclude-from=/home/roddierod/.pan Now I would expect that this would create a tar gzip file called RoddieRodHome.tgz and tar ball of my home with every thing but the files in .pan. But it does include the .pan directory. Is the --exclude-from not supported even though it is in the manpage? TIA -- Rod @ Home So No Cool Signature AIM: TheRealRoddieRod Yahoo:RoddieRod http://opensourcebeef.bsd.st
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