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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Excluding files using tar cXzf Post 79541 by sampipe on Thursday 28th of July 2005 09:13:22 AM
Old 07-28-2005
Thanks Vino for the reply...

your right that the file contains the file names that I would like to exclude from the tarball... This was my intension..

i.e. in this example I'm trying to exclude the ./1_dir/1_file file... but it still gets added every time.... see below.. could I have I got path issues in the exclude file??

root@node1 [~/tmp]# tar -cvf tar.tar --exclude-from exclude_file 1_dir/
1_dir/
1_dir/1_1_dir/
1_dir/1_1_dir/1_1_file
1_dir/1_file
root@node1 [~/tmp]# more exclude_file
./1_dir/1_file
root@node1 [~/tmp]#

from man file:
-X, --exclude-from FILE
exclude files listed in FILE
 

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bup-drecurse(1) 					      General Commands Manual						   bup-drecurse(1)

NAME
bup-drecurse - recursively list files in your filesystem SYNOPSIS
bup drecurse [-x] [-q] [--exclude path] [--exclude-from filename] [--profile] <path> DESCRIPTION
bup drecurse traverses files in the filesystem in a way similar to find(1). In most cases, you should use find(1) instead. This program is useful mainly for testing the file traversal algorithm used in bup-index(1). Note that filenames are returned in reverse alphabetical order, as in bup-index(1). This is important because you can't generate the hash of a parent directory until you have generated the hashes of all its children. When listing files in reverse order, the parent directory will come after its children, making this easy. OPTIONS
-x, --xdev, --one-file-system don't cross filesystem boundaries. -q, --quiet don't print filenames as they are encountered. Useful when testing performance of the traversal algorithms. --exclude=path a path to exclude from the backup (can be used more than once) --exclude-from=filename a file that contains exclude paths (can be used more than once) --profile print profiling information upon completion. Useful when testing performance of the traversal algorithms. EXAMPLE
bup drecurse -x / SEE ALSO
bup-index(1) BUP
Part of the bup(1) suite. AUTHORS
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>. Bup unknown- bup-drecurse(1)
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