tar excluding dir

[panchpan]

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

Thanks

[Ralph Grothe]

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.

[Peter Godron]

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.

[Dennis Handly · Accepted solution]

>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?

[panchpan]

THANKS A LOT