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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 14:44:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: tar question
To: Matt Minnis <mminnis AT prefres DOT com>, cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
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--- Matt Minnis <mminnis AT prefres DOT com> wrote:
> 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?
> 

Quote the *.  I.E. --exclude=\*.o

Cheers,

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