Re: [newbie] A question about tar

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

Re: [newbie] A question about tar

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