Advanced tar question

[Charles Howse <chowse charter net>]

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Hi,
How can I pass a *list* of excluded *directories* to tar?  Would it be 
delimited by whitespace, comma, quoted or what?  I'll ultimately want to 
create this list as a variable.

I also want to preserve existing ownership and permissions.

I'm using the following command at this point, but I can't find anything in 
man tar about excluding more than one pattern...or did I miss something?

[charles moe charles]$ tar cvCfz /home/charles /tmp/my_home_dir.tgz . 
- --exclude /home/charles/.giFT/

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Charles Howse
Jackson, TN
Registered Linux user # 347576 (http://counter.li.org)
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