On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 10:28, Robert Nichols wrote: > Rocky Hurley wrote: > > > > ok... this is cut extremely short for brevity. > > > > List to compress: AKA $tmpbkdir/bkuplist.txt > > > > ====================================8<----------------------------- > > home/rocky/sshtunnel > > home/rocky/.xmms/ > > home/rocky/.xmms/Skins/ > [SNIP] > > tar is doing exactly what you told it to do. You asked tar to > process the directory "home/rocky/.xmms/", which tells tar to > recurse into that directory and process everything below it, > including recursing into all subdirectories it finds. Then you > told tar to process the directory "home/rocky/.xmms/Skins/", and > tar obediently processes that directory and everything below it. > It is quite possible to have multiple copies of the same file in a > tar archive. If that's what you ask for, that's what you get. > > If you're building a list of things to include in a tar archive, > never include a directory name unless you really want *everything* > below that directory. There is no way to include just a directory > name in a tar archive without having tar recurse into that directory. > > -- > Bob Nichols rnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Thanks Bob, That was it... now..... How do I tell find to exclude the top directories? -- Rocky rlh-list_AT_nmrg.net
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