On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 22:24 +0000, yahootintin.11730620@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > hi, > > i'm using tar to gzip some directories like this: > tar cvzf ~/foo.tar.gz > /foo > > this tars everything in the foo directory. but i want it to tar everything > in the foo directory except for the bar subdirectory (eg. /foo/bar). i've > looked at the man pages and can't figure out how the exclude flag works. > > thanks. > tar -czvf /backup.tar.gz --exclude=/home/rick/images/clips/* -- exclude=/home/rick/musics/*.mp3 /home/rick/ tar everything in my home except all of images/clips and mp3 from musics
