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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: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 10:47:51 -0700 (PDT)
--- Matt Minnis <mminnis@prefres.com> wrote:
> Earnie,
>
> What does alphabetizing the files have to do with anything?
>
> If I name a specific file, shouldn't it be excluded no matter where it
> comes in the list?
>
See Jason Tishler's response to your problem.
> Here is my command line:
> @tar -zcvf $(TARBALL) Makefile *.c *.h ./tracer/* \
> License Readme version ./monitor/* --exclude=./monitor/monitor.o
^^^^^^^^^^^
this will specify that you want
./monitor/monitor.o to be included regardless of the --exclude because the
shell will do globbing. You can either turn off globbing in the shell or use
quoting techniques.
Cheers,
=====
---
Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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