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Re: tar exclude file



Alex Shnitman wrote:

> Whoops, forgot to mention (another line from same script):
> tar -zcvf var.tar.gz --exclude='/var/spool/squid/*' /var
> So excluding deeper directories shouldn't be a problem either.

Note:  --exclude does not care about files, but works on a regexp base.
that means: if you will try to:

$ cd /var/spool
$ tar cf /tmp/foo.gz --exclude='../log' /var

hoping that ../log and /var/log have same inode, you will be
surprised.



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Omer Mussaev    051-308-214   mailto:omerm@mercury.co.il
systems programmer, Mercury Interactive/RND/Conduct/core




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