 | | | tar -X and ~ is tricky | tar -X and ~ is tricky 2004-01-03 - By Ingo Lantschner
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Hi all,
seems as if the leading / make other problems beside of updating
an archive (see some dayes ago on this list):
If you want to exclude certain directories from beeing stored in an
archive, you MUST NOT use the ~-wildcard in the file which describes the
not-to-archive-files.
$ tar -cvf some.tar -X nobak.txt somepath
will work if nobak.txt
reads like:
---- snip ----
*.iso
home/*/.opera/cache4
home/*/.mozilla/temp
home/*/tmp
reads like
---- snap ----
But it will fail, if nobak.txt is like:
---- snip ----
*.iso
~/.opera/cache4
~/home/*/.mozilla/temp
~/home/*/tmp
---- snap ----
The reason may be, that ~ translates to /home/username which is different
from home/username (see the missing Slash!). tar removes the leading slash
by default, in order to have a relative path.
Bye, Ingo.
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