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Re: tar wildcard problem
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 18:19:39 -0500
- Subject: Re: tar wildcard problem
- References: <002101c2b03a$7e5979a0$80d16b80@amer.cisco.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 11:34:37AM -0800, Wai-Yip Tung (wtung) wrote:
>I tried everything but non seems to work. This is my tar command:
>
> tar -T filename.txt -X xfilename.txt -cvWf $TAR_FILE
>
>And here is my exclude file xfilename.txt:
>./*.bak
>'*.bak'
>"*.bak"
>*.bak
>file.txt
>file.bak
Have you tried this on linux? -T does not take files containing
wildcards.
Apparently -X should take patterns however, and that isn't working.
Patches gratefully accepted.
cgf
>I have a workaround that does work.
>
> EXCLUDE_OPT=`cat exclude_opt.txt`
> tar -T filename.txt -X xfilename.txt $EXCLUDE_OPT -cvWf $TAR_FILE
>
>This is my exclude_opt.txt file:
>--exclude=*.class
>--exclude=*.obj
>--exclude=*.bak
>
>But this is really not nice.
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