Re: exclude directories

Joerg Schilling <[email protected]> Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:29:04 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.archivers.star.user
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Lasse Kliemann <[email protected]> wrote:

> > How can I exclude a few directories?
> > I have tried using --exclude-from $EXCL_LIST  and listed the
> > directories in the said file, but
> > this does not work?
>
> It works for me, just tested (version 1.5.1).
>
> Can you explain exactly what you tried to do? (Contents of =

> exclude file, location of files, ...)

Thank you for the hint, it seems that I added the option name for gtar =

compatibility in 2007 together with -X. Note that in contrary to gtar, ther=
e is =

no pattern handling in star for this option.

J=F6rg

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