topic Re: tar excluding dir in Operating System - HP-UX

tar excluding dir

panchpan — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:56:07 GMT

Hello.
I use command tar -cvf for tarring a directory. Is there any way to tar excluding specific directories or files?

Thanks

Re: tar excluding dir

Ralph Grothe — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:04:44 GMT

I would assume only if you install GNU tar,
which has an --exclude option as well as -X or --exclude-from to refer to a file of excludes.
You can get GNU tar from the HP-UX porters as precompiled SD depot.

Re: tar excluding dir

Peter Godron — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:21:23 GMT

Hi,
Please see:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1040790
gnu tar or if you want to use fbackup, graph file

You could run a find, grep -v the enties you don't want and then use the file as input to tar. Probably quite slow, but would work.

Re: tar excluding dir

Dennis Handly — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:59:50 GMT

>Peter: You could run a find, grep -v the enties you don't want

This won't work if that directory is a subdirectory of one you want. cpio may work better?

Re: tar excluding dir

panchpan — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:38:18 GMT

THANKS A LOT