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On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:35:42 -0400 |
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Kenneth Prugh <ken69267@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:28:36 -0700 |
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> Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Does something like |
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> > '--exclude "/home/user/.*"' work with tar? |
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> > - Grant |
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> Yes you may exclude files from being included. From the tar man page: |
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> --exclude PATTERN exclude files based upon PATTERN |
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> -X, --exclude-from FILE exclude files listed in FILE |
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However, don't exclude files you want, such as .bash*, .xsession, and |
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so on. Generally these files aren't large and are important to the |
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private storage of uesr-specific info for many programs. |
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