Thanks for your replies. I could have phrased my question slightly better.
I want to know what the exclude list should look like to make sure I exclude all files with these extensions in any directory/subdirectory contained under the disklist entries: .ora .dbf .dmp .dmp.gz.xx If I understand you correctly, then using the following will only exclude files with those extensions located within top level directories, and not necessarily subdirectories, e.g. ./*.ora Is that correct? Olivier Nicole wrote: > >> No there really is a difference between excluding /foo, ./foo, and foo. >> As you are backing up ".", /foo will not match anything. > > Of course > >> ./foo will match any foo in the top level directory "." >> foo will match any foo in any directory under . > > Not so sure: > > banyan<on>: /usr/local/bin/tar --version > tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25 > Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. > You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License; > see the file named COPYING for details. > Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason. > banyan<on>: /usr/local/bin/tar cfv /dev/null . | grep jpg > ./Images/Picture-2 003.jpg > ./Images/Picture-2 005.jpg > ./maman.jpg > banyan<on>: cat ../excl > ./*.jpg > banyan<on>: /usr/local/bin/tar cfv /dev/null --exclude-from=../excl . | > grep jpg > banyan<on>: cat ../excl2 > *.jpg > > banyan<on>: /usr/local/bin/tar cfv /dev/null --exclude-from=../excl2 . | > grep jpg > > Excl contains ./*.jpg and excl2 contains *.jpg but they both exclude > any .jpg file in any level of the hierarchy. > > OK, funny enough, tar 1.13.19 on another machine gives different > results, but still, tar 1.13.25 is recommeneded version isn't it? > > Olivier > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Exclude-list-entries-tf1936459.html#a5323781 Sent from the Amanda - Users forum at Nabble.com.