-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 February 2004 10:28 pm, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote: Ahhhh...I get it now. I have to create a text file with the directories listed in it, and refer tar to the file. Thanks! > 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. - -- Charles Howse Jackson, TN Registered Linux user # 347576 (http://counter.li.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAQtbS/S+VsB9RMKgRAkZ/AJ93ytTzitZ2y9bWKJceRIcm1mQSZACggaIT xLlDEAmReO99wxFyBjLBeUs= =8FpV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
