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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: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms at icon-gmbh dot de>
- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:07:18 +0200
Hi Matt,
you try to exclude with exactly the same path that is listed
(after failed exclusion) by tar tvvf ?
Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Minnis [SMTP:mminnis@prefres.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 23:56
> To: Earnie Boyd; cygwin@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: tar question
>
> Nope.
>
> Even when I explicitly tellit to exclude a file:
>
> --exclude=./monitor/monitor.o
> --exclude='./monitor/monitor.o'
>
> This is ignored.
>
> What is going on here?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
>
>
> At 02:44 PM 8/16/2000 -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >--- 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,
> >
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