On 2015-04-13 16:15:42 +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > I've been trying to make a tarball of my home directory, but I want to > exclude ~/.cache. First I tried '--exclude="~/.cache", but it didn't > work. Neither did '--exclude="~/.cache/*".
The ~ is not expended here: $ echo "~/foo" ~/foo Try --exclude="$HOME/.cache" or similar. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150413142039.gb9...@ypig.lip.ens-lyon.fr
