tar exclude-from

drisay · 12-23-2004, 08:56 AM

I have tried the following commands:

Code:

tar -cvzf test.tar.gz -X excluded_files .
or
tar -cvzf test.tar.gz --exclude-from=excluded_files .

with the following entries in excluded_files file:

Code:

*.mp3
*.ogg
*.wma

for some reason it doesn't work. all the files get added to the archive. if i explicitely name each of the patterns on the command line it works fine.

Code:

tar -cvzf test.tar.gz --exclude=*.mp3 --exclude=*.ogg --exclude=*.wma .

Any ideas what I am doing wrong in the first example. Is the syntax of the exclude file wrong? I put one entry per line as it says in the man pages of tar.

Thanks in advance for any help,
drisay.

Cedrik · 12-23-2004, 01:10 PM

I would try to use find to build the exclude list, like

find /home -name "*.mp3" > excluded_files
find /home -name "*.wma" >> excluded_files