-----Original Message----- From: Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 13:57:58 -0700 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: A simple question about wildcards with tar
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] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user- [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] How about: tar -cvf backup.tar --exclude='*.fig*' --exclude='*.fig?*' * If ???? matches exactly four characters, then ?* should match any string of at least one, am I right? Y.Kelly ___________________________________________________________________________ Visit http://www.visto.com. Find out how companies are linking mobile users to the enterprise with Visto.
