[ale] tar weirdness

[Geoffrey]

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

The only way I know how to do this is:

find dir -name '*.gdbm' -print > list

tar cvzf tarball.tar.gz --exclude-from list

--exclude I believe is a single file name, quit useless to me. :(

> 
> All it tars ARE the gdbm files. Does tar not support globing?

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