[ale] tar question

[Yu, Jerry]

if you just want everything in that dir,

you can simply do:
cd /targetDir && tar cvf /somewhereElse/targetDir.tar . \
 --exclude-from=exc.list   && cd -

exc.list should contains things like in format like "./trash" instead of
"trash".



On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Robert L. Harris wrote:

#
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#tar cvzf tar.tgz dir/.??*
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#Thus spake David S. Jackson (dsj at sylvester.dsj.net):
#
#> I'm experimenting with tar, which I should know much better than
#> I do.  :-)
#> 
#> What's the best way to include ".filenames" without including
#> "..", which will include the everything in the parent directory?
#> 
#> So far I've been going with:
#> 
#> tar cvfz tarball.tar.gz dirname/.* --exclude '..'
#> 
#> I want to include subdirectories and their dotfiles.  Is there a
#> better way to do it?
#> 
#> TIA!
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