Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 22:02:49 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: More tar problems Message-ID: <20020520050250032.AAA423@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com>
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It seems like some aspects of tar have changed since earlier 4.x
FreeBSD. I used to use the following command to facilitate copying
filesystems from an old hard disk to a new one, but it no longer
works on 4.6-PRE:
tar clf - -C /start_dir -X /excluded_dir -X /another_excluded_dir . | tar xpvf - -C /destination_dir
("dir" also means "filesystem")
Problem seems to be it ignores the "-X" option. I get this kind of
result:
tar: can't add file -X : No such file or directory
tar: Removing leading / from absolute path names in the archive.
So it seems it ignores the -X option and then tries to add the
argument to the -X option to the archive. I also tried "--exclude-
from" instead of -X, same result.
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Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com
Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium
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