[ale] tar weirdness

[John Wells]

One way to do it easily under bash or ksh is:

tar -cvf mytar.tar $(find . -print | grep -ivE '\.$|patternidontwant')

Course, remove the i if you want case sensitivity.

John



Geoffrey said:
>
>
> 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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