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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: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:07:18 +0200
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Hi Matt,

you try to exclude with exactly the same path that is listed
(after failed exclusion) by tar tvvf ?

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 23:56
> To:	Earnie Boyd; cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
> Subject:	Re: tar question
> 
> 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
> >
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