Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000817093422.022513a8@mail.prefres.com> X-Sender: "Mminnis" X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:37:19 -0500 To: Jason Tishler , cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com From: "Matt Minnis" Subject: Re: tar question: Solved In-Reply-To: <20000817102531.G1036@DP> References: <4 DOT 3 DOT 2 DOT 7 DOT 2 DOT 20000817083850 DOT 0223eec0 AT mail DOT prefres DOT com> <20000816234240 DOT 4153 DOT qmail AT web111 DOT yahoomail DOT com> <4 DOT 3 DOT 2 DOT 7 DOT 2 DOT 20000817083850 DOT 0223eec0 AT mail DOT prefres DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-SLUIDL: ED5B22AB-743511D4-B71B0080-C813F968 Thanks All! > Here is my command line: > > @tar -zcvf $(TARBALL) Makefile *.c *.h ./tracer/* \ > > License Readme version > ./monitor/* --exclude=./monitor/monitor.o > >Use the following instead: > > tar -zcvf $(TARBALL) Makefile *.c *.h ./tracer/* \ > License Readme version ./monitor --exclude=./monitor/monitor.o > ^ > +--- see below > >Note that there is no "/*" after "./monitor" above. This worked. >You are explicitly specifying "./monitor/monitor.o" on the commandline >via "./monitor/*", so the exclude option is being ignored. Hence, the >guess in my previous email was correct. I didn't realize that dir/* explicitly listed the files into the command line. Thinking about it though, this does make sense. Who is incharge of documentation? Perhaps this type of example could help others down the road. Thanks, Matt Minnis Cthulhu for President. Why settle for a lesser evil? ========================================================= Preferred Resources (314) 567-7600 phone 701 Emerson rd. (314) 993-6699 fax Suite 475 mminnis AT prefres DOT com St. Louis, MO 63141 ========================================================= -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com