From: faerber AT ant DOT uni-hannover DOT de (Dirk Färber)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: tar --exclude
Date: 15 Jan 1999 13:00:33 GMT
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Hi,

for some reasons I don't know the exclude of specific files doesn't 
work in the DOS-Shell from Windows95. 
I've tried:
  tar -cvz --exclude=*.log -f archive.tgz *
  tar -cvz --exclude="*.log" -f archive.tgz *
  tar -cvz --exclude-from=donots -f archive.tgz *
  tar -cvz -X donots -f archive.tgz *
  File donots: 
    *.log
  
The rest of tar (version 112) 
works fine. E.g.:
  tar -cvzf archive.tgz *

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.

Does anybody knows, how to get tar to exclude specific files?

Thanks in advance

-Dirk

P.S.: I'm not using the djgpp directory structure. I just copied the 
      needed files tar.exe and gzip.exe to a directory in the search
      path.