[ale] tar weirdness

[James P. Kinney III]

I did it again but this time I used the -X exclude-file which had the
names of all the files I wanted to NOT include. All is well. I am still
confused though. 

On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 09:58, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Tar is not working the way I think it is suppose to. I want to tarball a
> directory EXCEPT for files ending in .gdbm
> 
> tar cvzf tarball.tar.gz --exclude dir/*.gdbm dir
> 
> All it tars ARE the gdbm files. Does tar not support globing?
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