Re: exclude directories

Ashley <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi there
>
> 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?

Hi, why do you believe that an option will work that was never implemented =
this =

way by tar?

Star supports patterns since aprox. 1985 and it recently (since 2007) suppo=
rts =

the -X option from tar (exclude a non-pattern containing list of files loca=
ted =

in a file).

Star also includes find(1) via libfind since 2004, so you have plenty of wa=
ys =

to do what you like.

BTW: this is documented in the man page ;-)

J=F6rg

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