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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Executing a tar command with the --exclude option in a Debian shell script. Post 302607389 by daveu7 on Wednesday 14th of March 2012 09:57:41 AM
Old 03-14-2012
Executing a tar command with the --exclude option in a Debian shell script.
Hi All,

I am trying to execute the following tar command with two --exclude options to suppress extract of the two directories specified.

Do I need to single quote the directory paths ??
Many thanks for your help.

The relevant code excerpt from the script is:

Code:
cd /var/www/${SITE}

 tar -cvf ${WORKING_BACKUP_ROOT}/${TAR_ARCHIVE_FILE} --exclude='/var/www/abcCompany/cache' \
                     --exclude='/var/www/abcCompany/administrator/cache' . >/${BACKUP_ROOT}/${ARCHIVE_LOG}

Last edited by daveu7; 03-14-2012 at 12:12 PM..
 

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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
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       -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

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	   ddir --x-vcs --dir .

	   .
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TROUBLESHOOTING

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EXAMPLES

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ENVIRONMENT

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FILES

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SEE ALSO

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COREQUISITES

       Uses standard Perl modules.

AVAILABILITY

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