Thanks for the clarification. I'm a seasoned programmer but have not worked on GNU. If you can give me some pointer perhaps I can help. (Better than trial-and-error all day :).
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 3:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: tar wildcard problem On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 11:34:37AM -0800, Wai-Yip Tung (wtung) wrote: >I tried everything but non seems to work. This is my tar command: > > tar -T filename.txt -X xfilename.txt -cvWf $TAR_FILE > >And here is my exclude file xfilename.txt: >./*.bak >'*.bak' >"*.bak" >*.bak >file.txt >file.bak Have you tried this on linux? -T does not take files containing wildcards. Apparently -X should take patterns however, and that isn't working. Patches gratefully accepted. cgf >I have a workaround that does work. > > EXCLUDE_OPT=`cat exclude_opt.txt` > tar -T filename.txt -X xfilename.txt $EXCLUDE_OPT -cvWf $TAR_FILE > >This is my exclude_opt.txt file: >--exclude=*.class >--exclude=*.obj >--exclude=*.bak > >But this is really not nice. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
