Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 10:25:31 -0400 From: Jason Tishler To: Matt Minnis Cc: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: tar question Message-ID: <20000817102531.G1036@DP> References: <20000816234240.4153.qmail@web111.yahoomail.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000817083850.0223eec0@mail.prefres.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000817083850.0223eec0@mail.prefres.com>; from mminnis@prefres.com on Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 08:53:42AM -0500 Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corp. Matt, On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 08:53:42AM -0500, Matt Minnis wrote: > Here is my command line: > @tar -zcvf $(TARBALL) Makefile *.c *.h ./tracer/* \ > License Readme version ./monitor/* --exclude=./monitor/monitor.o Use the following instead: tar -zcvf $(TARBALL) Makefile *.c *.h ./tracer/* \ License Readme version ./monitor --exclude=./monitor/monitor.o ^ +--- see below Note that there is no "/*" after "./monitor" above. You are explicitly specifying "./monitor/monitor.o" on the commandline via "./monitor/*", so the exclude option is being ignored. Hence, the guess in my previous email was correct. Jason -- Jason Tishler Director, Software Engineering Phone: +1 (732) 264-8770 x235 Dot Hill Systems Corporation Fax: +1 (732) 264-8798 82 Bethany Road, Suite 7 Email: Jason.Tishler@dothill.com Hazlet, NJ 07730 USA WWW: http://www.dothill.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com