Re: format of exclude list

2002-06-23 Thread John R. Jackson
>Ok, say I want to back up some directories in /usr and I wanted to >exclude the directories below. Is the format that I used below >appropriate to exclude the directories and their subdirectories below? >... Not quite. What you have will exclude the contents of the directories but not the dire

Re: format of exclude list

2002-03-15 Thread John R. Jackson
>Ok, say I want to back up some directories in /usr and I wanted to >exclude the directories below. Is the format that I used below >appropriate to exclude the directories and their subdirectories below? >... Not quite. What you have will exclude the contents of the directories but not the dire

format of exclude list

2002-03-12 Thread Jeffrey S. Auerbach
Ok, say I want to back up some directories in /usr and I wanted to exclude the directories below. Is the format that I used below appropriate to exclude the directories and their subdirectories below? I am using gtar. ./X11R6/* ./bin/* ./compat/* ./games/* ./include/* ./lib/* ./libdata/* ./lib