Sorry, was my mistake, i have overseen it. But please use quotation marks for 
${FILENAME} if in 
some time a blank or something like this happens in it.
But this solution won't be good at all, only a small hack for the ppl who 
scream for this feature.

cu

Am Donnerstag, 11. November 2004 16:18 schrieb Peter Simons:
> Locke  writes:
>  > why do you extract all files in the tar archive?
>
> Oh shit! I forgot to explain something! Look closely at the
> line you neglected to quote:
>
>  /bin/tar --exclude=CVS -cjf ${FILENAME} portage
>
> First of, the lack of any '+' or '-' in front of it means
> that I actually didn't modify it in any way but that it was
> in the script to begin with. So it is not quite exactly my
> "code".
>
> Secondly, if you look real hard, you'll find the use of the
> flag '-c' on that command. This is an abbreviation for
> "create", which means that the command creates a tar
> archive. So it's not really extracting anything from the
> archive. If you want to know more about this, check out
> this:
>
>   man tar
>
>  > And please stop your sarcastic expressions.
>
> Just did.
>
> Peter
>
>
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