[ale] tar weirdness

[Geoffrey]

Just tried this an it worked:

tar --exclude '*catalog*' -tvzf mozilla-backup.tgz

There is a directory in this tarball that contains two files.  They are 
not listed when using the above.

I love learning new things.  I've tried this before and swear it did not 
work.  Either two many beers at the time, or a bug.  Likely the beer.

Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Friday 24 January 2003 09:58 am, 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?
> 
> 
> The man page and the info page on tar disagree on the usage of this flag.  
> The man page says:
> --exclude FILE           
> 	exclude file FILE
> But the info page says:
>  `--exclude=PATTERN'
>       Causes `tar' to ignore files that match the PATTERN.
>  
> In general, the GNU info pages are more correct.  The info page claim that 
> globbing is supported, but they seem to imply that quoting of the * is a 
> good idea.   
>     The `--exclude=PATTERN' option prevents any file or member whose name
>  matches the shell wildcard (PATTERN) from being operated on.  For
>  example, to create an archive with all the contents of the directory
>  `src' except for files whose names end in `.o', use the command `tar
>  -cf src.tar --exclude='*.o' src'.
>  
> 
> --Michael
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