On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 10:14 -0500, linuxmaillists(a)charter.net wrote:
On Thursday 01 February 2007 09:49, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> =>Delete the directory or move it then do your tar ball.
>
> What a horrible answer!
There is nothing horrible about my answer. It did not tell
him what he wanted to know about excluding but it did tell
him how to accomplish his objective, because he does not
want to save that tmp directory anyway.
I am sorry about this but let me answer a related question which you may
be interested in. That is how do you untar a file into an existing
directory but not overwrite files with the same name? Use the -k option
of tar.
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Aaron Konstam <akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net>