Re: Anyone have experience with the Gtar option --exclude='FileGlob' ?

On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:

> 	Hello All ,  I am using Gtar 1.13 & I have to be using this
> 	function incorrectly as tar still stuffs the 'FileGlob' files
> 	into the tarball everytime .  Yes I know about the
> 	[ -l, --one-file-system ] .  I'd prefer not to use the /dev/nst0
> 	device entry in the script I am trying to build that using '-l'
> 	would cause .  Tia ,  JimL
> 
> 	I have tried :
> 
> 	--exclude="proc/*"
> 	--exclude="proc/."

We use the --exclude-from option, which takes the name of a file.

tar -l --atime-preserve --totals -X daily.exclude -cvf /dev/... / /boot

daily.exclude:
/tmp/*
/var/cache/*/*
/var/tmp/*
/work/*
/home.old/*

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