tar

Creamy Goodness

how do i crate a tar of a directory and all it's sub directories except for a sub-directory called backup?

i created the tar like so tar cvf tool.tar tool

the backup directory is inside tool but i don't want it included in the tar.

sobriquet

There's an --exclude=/path/to/directory option, check the man page for details. So backing up my home dir goes something like: `tar -cvf home-backup.tar /home/foo --exclude=/home/foo/backups` - on Windows at the mo so can't check.

Rambo

Cremo wrote: »

how do i crate a tar of a directory and all it's sub directories except for a sub-directory called backup?

i created the tar like so tar cvf tool.tar tool

the backup directory is inside tool but i don't want it included in the tar.

tar -cf tool.tar --exclude backup tool

ok

leeroybrown

One point to note is that this will all work easily with GNU tar but the options can vary when using Unix tar variants.

Creamy Goodness

leeroybrown wrote: »

One point to note is that this will all work easily with GNU tar but the options can vary when using Unix tar variants.

i'm not too sure what version of tar i have, since i'm no where near the machine at the moment i can't check, but it's a solaris 8 machine.

leeroybrown

If it's Solaris 8 without the GNU utilities being explicitly installed then the options will be somewhat different. Offhand the following might work with Solaris tar:

tar cfX tool.tar exclude.file tool

where exclude.file is the name of a file that contains the string:

tool/backup

It might need to be preceded with "./" to get an exact string match if tar is being particularly anal.

Check the local man page to see if this seems ok for your variant.

Creamy Goodness

perfect got it to work, cheers leeroy.