On 2015-04-13 16:15:42 +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > I've been trying to make a tarball of my home directory, but I want to > exclude ~/.cache. First I tried '--exclude="~/.cache", but it didn't > work. Neither did '--exclude="~/.cache/*".
The ~ is not expended here: $ echo "~/foo" ~/foo Try --exclude="$HOME/.cache" or similar. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
