Greetings, I'm trying to make a backup with tar, but there are certain files that I don't want to include in the backup. Reading the info documentation about tar, it says that I can use the --exclude=PATTERN option. So if I type
tar -cvf backup.tar --exclude='*.fig' * then it excludes all files that end with .fig. However, if I also want to exclude files that end with .fig.bak, then it seems that tar -cvf backup.tar --exclude='*.fig*' * should work. But it doesn't. Typing tar -cvf backup.tar --exclude='*.fig*' --exclude='*.fig????' * does work. But it won't work for me in the general case, where I won't know how many characters follow the pattern that I'm matching. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
