Re: Advanced tar question

In the first place, you can just pass --exclude multiple times, but this quickly grows tiresome. There's a better way.

From the command line, type:

  $ info tar

This will bring up the tar documentation. Search for "exclude" (type '/exclude<return>'). You may have to repeat this step. You'll find:

`--exclude-from=FILE'
`-X FILE'
     Similar to `--exclude', except `tar' will use the list of patterns
     in the file FILE.

I suspect this is what you want.

-- Lars

On Feb 29, 2004, at 5:53 PM, Charles Howse wrote:

How can I pass a *list* of excluded *directories* to tar? Would it be
delimited by whitespace, comma, quoted or what? I'll ultimately want to
create this list as a variable.