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On 5/5/21 7:33 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> 3) All directories and/or files to exclude must be listed as relative |
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> paths to the directory being tarred, i.e. last parameter on the |
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> command line. |
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This might not be very clearly articulated in the manual et al., but |
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once you are aware of it, you see evidence of it in multiple places. |
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I'm used to tar stripping the leading character if it's a forward slash |
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from paths. Thus tar actually works with relative paths based on the |
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(effective) working directory (which can be changed via the '-C' / |
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'--directory=' option). |
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So, after many years and even more battle scars, /I/ would /expect/ that |
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the path must be relative to the directory that tar is working on. |
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Perhaps I've simply survived more duels with tar. This is nothing |
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against you or anyone. After all, xkcd has this to say about tar: I'M |
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SO SORRY. |
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Link - TAR |
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- https://xkcd.com/1168/ |
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Grant. . . . |
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unix || die |
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