Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:31:34 +0100 From: Karol Kwiatkowski <freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: bsdtar '--exclude pattern' problems Message-ID: <41AC7636.2050605@orchid.homeunix.org>
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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 -- Karol Kwiatkowski <freebsd at orchid dot homeunix dot org>
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