UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

The problem from your original post is that the file in the exclude file has './' at the begining. The tar exclude is looking for an exact pattern match for the files it excludes.

So with your original exclude file the following would work.

tar cvXf exclude_file tar.tar ./1_dir

Or you can remove the './' from the begining of the line in the original exclude file. In which case your original command

tar cvXf exclude_file tar.tar 1_dir

would work.

Cheers All how helped... Vino.. you pointer me in the right direction and it does work now without the ./

Thanks!!...

but because of that it leads me into another quick question... as you can imagine I don't hand write the exclude list... I use a find command..

and the simplified example ...

root@node1 [~/tmp]# find ./1_dir/ -name '1_f*' -print > exclude_file
root@node1 [~/tmp]# more exclude_file
./1_dir/1_file

Is there an easy way to remove the ./ at the start?? If I'm going down the complete wrong path here and someone else has a better method then I'm very open to it!!


Sam


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proof of past solution....

root@node1 [~/tmp]# tar cv -X exclude_file -f tar.tar 1_dir/
1_dir/
1_dir/1_1_dir/
1_dir/1_1_dir/1_1_file
root@node1 [~/tmp]# more exclude_file
1_dir/1_file

Many ways to do that.

Here is one.

Code:

sed -n -e 's/^..//g' exclude_file > exclude_file.new
mv exclude_file.new exclude_file

Vino

Hey there all...

Thanks everyone for your help... I found a solution to the find.. I really appreciate the help with this one ...

Just to say.. I will use this to stripe out cache, logfiles, lock files, core dumps, etc from a development enviroment when I migrate code... it may be helpful for others as well!!...

i.e...
create exclude list with find below.. and package up the files you want!

root@node1 [~/tmp]# find ./1_dir/ -name '1_f*' -print | sed "s,^./,," > exclude_file
root@node1 [~/tmp]# more exclude_file
1_dir/1_file
root@node1 [~/tmp]#

Cheers Vino for the response... most appreciated!..

Off to make it usefui now..

Sam..