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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to tar this dir excluding some files .au? Post 302766353 by manalisharmabe on Monday 4th of February 2013 03:31:57 PM
Old 02-04-2013
Thanks Guys for reply,

I will soon post what I did to get this done.
 

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