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Re: tar question
- To: Matt Minnis <mminnis at prefres dot com>, cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: tar question
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 14:44:37 -0700 (PDT)
--- Matt Minnis <mminnis@prefres.com> wrote:
> I am trying to make a tar volume & exclude the *.o & *.x files.
>
> per tar --help:
> <snip>
> --exclude=PATTERN exclude files, given as a globbing PATTERN
> <snip>
>
> So I have added --exclude=*.o --exclude=*.x
> to the commandline.
>
> This still gets the o & x files.
>
> What am I doing wrong? Is there a problem with cygwin causing this?
>
Quote the *. I.E. --exclude=\*.o
Cheers,
=====
---
Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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