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Re: tar question
- To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>, cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: tar question
- From: "Matt Minnis" <mminnis at prefres dot com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 16:55:49 -0500
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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