using tar

Rick Chen ver2.02 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 14 07:16:58 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 22:24 +0000, yahootintin.11730620 at bloglines.com
wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i'm using tar to gzip some directories like this:
>   tar cvzf ~/foo.tar.gz
> /foo
> 
> this tars everything in the foo directory.  but i want it to tar everything
> in the foo directory except for the bar subdirectory (eg. /foo/bar).  i've
> looked at the man pages and can't figure out how the exclude flag works.
> 
> thanks.
> 

tar -czvf /backup.tar.gz --exclude=/home/rick/images/clips/* --
exclude=/home/rick/musics/*.mp3 /home/rick/

tar everything in my home except all of images/clips and mp3 from musics




More information about the fedora-list mailing list