Thanks Lonnie. I really need the exclude folder option. I am trying to exclude
the "monitor" folder which got 4 years worth of .wav files. Will be hard to
list every file :-) and they keep adding every day.
How come this version of tar does not have the folder exclude option? Strange
On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 1:00 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck
<[email protected]> wrote:
Ionel,
Our 'tar' is implemented via Busybox
--
pbx3 ~ # tar -h
BusyBox v1.19.4 (2015-08-25 17:52:46 CDT) multi-call binary.
Usage: tar -[cxtZzjahvO] [-X FILE] [-T FILE] [-f TARFILE] [-C DIR] [FILE]...
Create, extract, or list files from a tar file
Operation:
c Create
x Extract
t List
f Name of TARFILE ('-' for stdin/out)
C Change to DIR before operation
v Verbose
Z (De)compress using compress
z (De)compress using gzip
j (De)compress using bzip2
a (De)compress using lzma
O Extract to stdout
h Follow symlinks
exclude File to exclude
X File with names to exclude
T File with names to include
--
I have used the -X excludefile option before, add your excluded files one per
line in "excludefile"
Lonnie
On Aug 26, 2015, at 12:51 PM, Ionel Chila <[email protected]> wrote:
> is the --exclude folder function broken in the current Astlinux tar version?
> It doesn't work for me ?
>
> Many thanks
> Ionel Chila
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