On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Paul Kraus wrote: > When running tar with the exclude set tar creates a 10k empty tar file. > > I have a script that tars a all the sub directories of a directory into > individual tar files for each subdirectory. I have an exclude file that > is set to skip some of the folders I don't want tarred. This works but > it creates the empty tar files. Is this normal? Can it be set not to do > this?
How about showing us the line out of the script that calls tar, and a sample of your exclude line. Tar can be... tempermental when it comes to exclude's. Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
