I tried everything but non seems to work. This is my tar command: tar -T filename.txt -X xfilename.txt -cvWf $TAR_FILE
And here is my exclude file xfilename.txt: ./*.bak '*.bak' "*.bak" *.bak file.txt file.bak I have a workaround that does work. EXCLUDE_OPT=`cat exclude_opt.txt` tar -T filename.txt -X xfilename.txt $EXCLUDE_OPT -cvWf $TAR_FILE This is my exclude_opt.txt file: --exclude=*.class --exclude=*.obj --exclude=*.bak But this is really not nice. Wai yip Tung -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 7:27 AM To: Wai-Yip Tung (wtung) Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: tar wildcard problem On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Wai-Yip Tung (wtung) wrote: > I got some problem using tar. > > * wildcard in -T doesn't work. If I include *.txt in the file list I > got > > tar: *.txt: Cannot stat: No such file or directory > > However using *.txt in command line do work. Putting exact file name > or directory in the file list also works. > > * wildcard in -X file doesn't work. However, if I use it in --exclude > it does work. Putting exact file name doesn't work either. So -X does > nothing for me. > > The version information is > > tar (GNU tar) 1.13.25 > Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. > You may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public > License; see the file named COPYING for details. > Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason. > > Hope you can give me some suggestion. > Thank you, > Wai yip Tung Wai, Did you escape or quote the wildcards appropriately, so that tar expands them instead of the shell? Igor P.S. When asking a new question, it's usually better to start a new thread, rather than replying to an old one, otherwise people with threaded mail readers may not notice your query. -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
