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Date: | Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:25:33 -0500 |
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Subject: | Re: tar --exclude not working |
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On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 02:52:53PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote: >> I'm using tar (GNU tar) 1.16.1 and have an archive with the following entries. >> Files/report1.html >> Files/report2.html >> Files/report3.html >> Files/report4.html >> D:/Bkp/sol/ >> D:/Bkp/sol/test1.pl >> D:/Bkp/sol/test2.pl >> D:/Bkp/sol/test3.pl >> >> Whenever, I try to exclude files starting with "D:/" its not working >> as expected. > >Tar has special treatment of command-line arguments with colons, >trying to treat it as a path to a remote machine. Tar archives created >with drive letters are inherently non-portable, and under cygwin, you >should create tar archives using a POSIX name such as /cygdrive/d >rather than d:/ (or whatever you mount your cygdrive as). > >> >> Is this a bug? Can it be worked atound? > >I have done nothing in this regards that is cygwin-specific. If it is >a bug, then it is an upstream one. But more likely, it is merely a >matter of your using drive letters when tar tries to interpret them >as remote machine names. Maybe this should be a FAQ. It sure comes up enough. Do we have anyone whose willing to update the FAQ with this info? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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