Re: star and /dev/watchdog (exclusion of files)

Wolfram Schlich <[email protected]> wrote:

> > If GNU tar implements this with pattern matching as star does, it would=
 be a =

> > bug. There is a different behavior from historic tar....
>
> I see.

Just to make things unambiguous, tar does implement pattern matching and =

defines a different method to exclude single files vs. directory trees in =

extract mode.

> > > > Where is your problem?
> > >
> > > Looks like I missed the NOTES section about -xfflags :)
> > > I'll switch off -xfflags now.
> > =

> > Check the man page for the star option to tell that you like to exclude=
 Complete
> > directory trees.
>
> You are probably talking about -match-tree?

correct

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