In the first place, you can just pass --exclude multiple times, but
this quickly grows tiresome. There's a better way.
From the command line, type:
$ info tar
This will bring up the tar documentation. Search for "exclude" (type
'/exclude<return>'). You may have to repeat this step. You'll find:
`--exclude-from=FILE'
`-X FILE'
Similar to `--exclude', except `tar' will use the list of patterns
in the file FILE.
I suspect this is what you want.
-- Lars
On Feb 29, 2004, at 5:53 PM, Charles Howse wrote:
How can I pass a *list* of excluded *directories* to tar? Would it
be
delimited by whitespace, comma, quoted or what? I'll ultimately want
to
create this list as a variable.