Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Solaris TAR with Excluded Directories

It's been a long time since I had to use Solaris, and tar is bad enough without the differences between Linux and my previously favorite Unix!

$ tar cfX - /tmp/excludes . | gzip > ~/excluded.tgz

where /tmp/excludes looks like this:

./sub1
./sub2
./sub3

So it's not just a list of what's excluded, it's starting with the dot!

hattip: thank you, My Couple Of Cents!!

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