tar exclude list

Tirmazi · #1 (**permalink**) 05-02-2008

I have solaris 8, I want to create tar for all files under this directory structure
#/export/home/atg/Dynamo/home
There is a subdirectory under this tree called servers/supersds/logs
I want to exclude logs subdirectory so I created exclude list which contains

servers/supersds/logs

But tar is still picking up logs subdirectory and everything under it, where is my syntax wrong please advise.
The command I am using is

/export/home/atg/Dynamo/home#tar cvfX java02may08.tar exclude *

Perderabo · #2 (**permalink**) 05-02-2008

Dunno... but it works for me...

Code:

# cat exclude
acct/fiscal
#
#
# tar cvfX dummy.tar exclude acct
a acct/ 0K
a acct/fiscal excluded
a acct/nite/ 0K
a acct/sum/ 0K
#
#

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