From: ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se (Martin Str|mberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: tar --exclude
Date: 16 Jan 1999 10:27:27 GMT
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Dirk Färber (faerber AT ant DOT uni-hannover DOT de) wrote:
: 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.

I'm afraid that * is expanded to all the files in the current
directory before it is passed to tar itself. Hence * is an explicit
inclusion. Try "tar -cvz --exclude-from=donots -f archive.tgz .",
which might work.


Right,

							MartinS