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RE: tar question
- To: 'Matt Minnis' <mminnis at prefres dot com>, cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: RE: tar question
- From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms at icon-gmbh dot de>
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 23:22:49 +0200
Hi Matt,
try quoting to prevent shell globbing: --exclude='*.o'
Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Minnis [SMTP:mminnis@prefres.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 23:20
> To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: tar question
>
> I am trying to make a tar volume & exclude the *.o & *.x files.
>
> per tar --help:
> <snip>
> --exclude=PATTERN exclude files, given as a globbing PATTERN
> <snip>
>
> So I have added --exclude=*.o --exclude=*.x
> to the commandline.
>
> This still gets the o & x files.
>
> What am I doing wrong? Is there a problem with cygwin causing this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
>
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