Re: UNIX OT: exclude files in tar

I never rely on tar to do that. Here is the trick that I use when I want to be selective:

 tar zcvf /tmp/test1.tgz `perl -e 'foreach (<*.pl>) { if (/connect/) {print "$_\n";}}'`

Basically, you write a small perl script which will output only the files you want and hand that to tar. Works each and every time. That is precisely why Unix is such a great OS and Slowaris definitely is Unix, unless SCO has revoked the license.

On 11/25/2003 12:24:26 AM, Ross Collado wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Solaris 8
>
> I can't seem to get the tar command right. I wanted to tar a directory but
> EXCLUDE one of the subdirectory in it.
> Example:
> /home/user01
> /home/user01/mark01
> /home/user01/mark01/ask.txt
> /home/user01/mark01/ghost.txt
> /home/user01/mark02
> /home/user01/mark02/ask.txt
> /home/user01/mark02/ghost.txt
> /home/user01/mark03
> /home/user01/mark03/ask.txt
> /home/user01/mark03/ghost.txt
>
> I wanted to tar everything except /home/user01/mark03/*
> man pages on tar says there is an option to exclude files but I just can't
> get it to work for me.
>
> Can someone show me how to do this right?
>
> Thanks,
> Ross
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