[PLUG] Using tar command with --exclude=

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Fri Jun 18 15:11:37 UTC 2010


On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, wes wrote:

> put the j before the f.

Yep. The -f option expects the next token to be a filename.

> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Keith <ac7xc1nx at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>  I'm trying to use the tar command in a BASH shell and want to exclude
>> files.
>> If I use this command:
>>   tar --exclude=._* -cvfj oldemail.tbz bzip2
>>
>> tar creates an archive named
>>  j
>>
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Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/



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