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From:	Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de>
To:	"'Matt Minnis'" <mminnis AT prefres DOT com>, cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
Subject:	RE: tar question
Date:	Wed, 16 Aug 2000 23:22:49 +0200
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Hi Matt,

try quoting to prevent shell globbing: --exclude='*.o'


Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Matt Minnis [SMTP:mminnis AT prefres DOT com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, August 16, 2000 23:20
> To:	cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT 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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