how to tar a series of directories with exclusions 1

[Nerdhurd]

Howdy folks, is there a way to tarball a series of directories while exluding a directory? Id like to

tar -cvzf archive.tgz home/username/basedir

I want to exclude a directory within basedir called: test

is there a way to do this?

Thanks!

 

[TonyGroves]

You could use the option [tt]--exclude=pattern[/tt] .

 

[Nerdhurd]

Thanks, sorry I did try that previously but for whatever reason the directory was still being tarballed:

tar -cvzf archive.tgz home/username/basedir -exclude /home/username/basedir/test/*

 

[TonyGroves]

According to man tar, the syntax is [tt]--exclude=file[/tt] .

 

[xmb]

--exclude is pretty much a pattern, handy for '.*' to exclude dotfiles, but works on the global path text. GNU tar at least.

--exclude=PATTERN
exclude files matching PATTERN


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