03-11-2002
excluding directories while using tar
How do I exclude some directories while creating a tar file with a number of directories?
thanks.
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DDIR(1) cvs status - formatter DDIR(1)
NAME
ddir - display hierarchical directory tree
SYNOPSIS
ddir [options] DIR
DESCRIPTION
Display an indented directory tree using ASCII graphical characters to represent the hierarchical structure. The directories to include or
exclude can be specified with command line options. Ddir is a Perl implementation of the tree(1) program.
OPTIONS
-d, --dir
Display only directories.
-h, --help
Print text help
--help-exclude
Print default exclude path value when --exclude-vcs is used.
--help-html
Print help in HTML format.
--help-man
Print help in manual page man(1) format.
-i, --include REGEXP
Include files mathing regexp. The match is done against whole path. The option can be used multiple times.
If this option is not supplied, every file is automatically included. The matches can be further filtered by using options --exclude.
-v, --verbose LEVEL
Print informational messages. Increase numeric LEVEL for more verbosity.
-V, --version
Print contact and version information.
-x, --exclude REGEXP
Ignore files mathing regexp. The match is done against whole path. The option can be used multiple times.
This option is applied after possible --include matches.
-C, --exclude-vcs
Exclude version control directories. See --help-exclude.
EXAMPLES
Show directory tree by excluding version control directories. Display only directories:
ddir --x-vcs --dir .
.
+--doc/
| +--manual/
+--bin/
TROUBLESHOOTING
None.
EXAMPLES
None.
ENVIRONMENT
None.
FILES
None.
SEE ALSO
tree(1)
COREQUISITES
Uses standard Perl modules.
AVAILABILITY
Homepage is at http://freshmeat.net/projects/ddir
AUTHORS
Copyright (C) 1995-2010 Jari Aalto. Copyright (C) 1994 Brian Blackmore.
LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute and/or modify program under the terms of GNU General Public license either version 2 of
the License, or (at your option) any later version.
perl v5.10.1 2010-03-16 DDIR(1)