On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, flupke wrote:
> of course, there is!
> If you want to create an archive (named /archive.tar) that contains your /home
> directory without including /home/foo, you type :
> cd /home
> tar cf /archiv.tar . --exclude foo
>
> Michelle Schneider wrote :
> > Is there a way to get tar to skip a whole directory? I can't get it to work.
> >
Thanks. I was putting the exclude switch in the wrong place.
Michelle
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