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07-10-2007
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tar'ing and regular expressions
Hi,
How do I tar all but a specific set of files in a directory? Is it possible to use regular expressions in the tar command? I want to tar all files except those beginning with D. I tried this tar -cvf files.tar ^[^D] but this didn't work. Anyone any ideas. Thanks |
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07-10-2007
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tar cvf files.tar [!D]* In some cases you have to escape the bang ([\!D]). |
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07-10-2007
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Thanks Radoulov. That's cracked it.
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