Also I just noticed I get an error about removing leading / from member names.
Here is my archive.exclude /backup/advserver /backup/logs /backup/lost+found /backup/scripts /backup/tar.archive -----Original Message----- From: Paul Kraus [mailto:pkraus@;pelsupply.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 10:26 AM To: 'Mike Dresser' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Tar Exclude Here is the script ------------------ exceptions=/backup/scripts/archive.exclude dt=`date +%A` cd /backup for filestotar in `ls --almost-all --directory -x1 *` do tar --directory /backup/tar.archive \ --create --verbose \ --exclude-from $exceptions \ --file /backup/tmp/$filestotar.$dt.tar \ /backup/$filestotar/* 1> /backup/tmp/$filestotar.$dt.index done -----Original Message----- From: Mike Dresser [mailto:mdresser_l@;windsormachine.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 10:22 AM To: Paul Kraus Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Tar Exclude 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
