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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 16:55:49 -0500
To: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>, cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
From: "Matt Minnis" <mminnis AT prefres DOT com>
Subject: Re: tar question
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Nope.

Even when I explicitly tellit to exclude a file:

--exclude=./monitor/monitor.o
--exclude='./monitor/monitor.o'

This is ignored.

What is going on here?

Thanks,

Matt


At 02:44 PM 8/16/2000 -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- 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,
>
>=====
>---
>    Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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