Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:16:22 -0700 From: Erin Fortenberry <efortenb@sdccd.cc.ca.us> To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: tar - need to excluding directories Message-ID: <BBDEEDD2EB67D311A0240008C74B9345129C3F@ntxmidcity.sdccd.cc.ca.us>
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I need to tarball everything from the root but I need to exclude my /home/backup directory. I looked through the man pages and found; -X file --exclude-from file Exclude files listed in file. Does anyone know if this will exclude that directory and all of its subdirectories? Thanks, Erin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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