Date:	Sun, 17 Jan 1999 12:17:12 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Dirk Färber <faerber AT ant DOT uni-hannover DOT de>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: tar --exclude
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On 15 Jan 1999, Dirk Färber wrote:

> The manual says, that files explicitly included in the file list override
> the exclude list. I hope, that * is not an explicit inclusion in this 
> sense.

Of course * is explicitly including every file in the directory, since
the DJGPP startup code expands * to the list of all files, just like
it happens on Unix.  And that is why --exclude doesn't seem to work in
your case.

Instead of "*" try ".", like this:

>   tar -cvz --exclude="*.log" -f archive.tgz .

(You MUST put quotes around *.log.)

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